My attention was called recently by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum to this multiple-choice test sentence: “I spoke to him regarding (as regards, in regard to, with regard to) his future.” Baklis—that’s his username—said he found the alternatives to “regarding” in that sentence baffling and asked for my thoughts about them.

Here’s what I told Baklis:

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