"regarding" or "regarding to"?

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Should I use "regarding something" or "regarding to something"?
 
In 90% of the cases, "regarding"

e.g. "Regarding your request, I shall answer you tomorrow"

Amazingly, there's a great number of hits in Google. I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong. However, in both cases the speaker's country of origin is unknown, which probably means they're not native speakers.

Don't confuse "regarding to" with "regard to". This is frequently used, as in this sentence:
"He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option."

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Perhaps "regarding to your request" is grammatical in some dialect, e.g. AmE?? Some native American speaker could enlighten us.. :-D
 
In 90% of the cases, "regarding"

e.g. "Regarding your request, I shall answer you tomorrow"

Amazingly, there's a great number of hits in Google. I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong. However, in both cases the speaker's country of origin is unknown, which probably means they're not native speakers.

Don't confuse "regarding to" with "regard to". This is frequently used, as in this sentence:
"He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option."

PS
Perhaps "regarding to your request" is grammatical in some dialect, e.g. AmE?? Some native American speaker could enlighten us.. :-D

No, that is not grammatical in American English either. So the BNC has problems simlar to Google's, eh? ;-)
 
Should I use "regarding something" or "regarding to something"?

"Regarding something"
"With regard to something"
and
"As regards something"

are all fine. There is a (in my view, lamentable) tendency for many native speakers to confuse these last two, and say "With regards to something". I regard it as A Bad Thing, but it's happening.

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I would actually consider "Regarding to your request" ungrammatical but there's 1-2 hits in British National Corpus, so I might be wrong.

No, I think you're right, Mariner: in standard BrE, it would be ungrammatical.

The second of the examples in the BNC comes from a Leeds Utd email:

"...goals in 12 matches in England is not at all impressive; the chances keep coming all the time in games over here". So too bad that Wilko would not give the guy a real chance --; specially regarding to the stuff that that Wilko spoke when Frank signed. Well --; i wish Frank good luck and i --;really--; hope he keeps them goals coming down in Spain too give Wilko some sleepless nights … What a week: Batts..."

There are 5 non-standard phrases in this short text; though some of them may be due to hasty typing (e.g. #2 and #5).

MrP
 
So no native speakers would say "regarding to"?
 
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'No native speakers;' might be an overstatement, but very few. ;-)
 
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Why? What would that mean there?, "No native speakers are supposed to...."?

That would be a rough translation. :)
 
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Can I use "concerning" in place of regarding?
 
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Can I use "concerning" in place of regarding?

Yes you could, but that doesn't mean that the two words are always interchangeable.
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Hi there :)

I know this thread is outdated, but I think it is worth stressing it due to an increasing misuse of "Regarding to" instead of "with regard to".

I still use "with regard to" and consider it grammatically correct. I have seen too many people using "regarding to".

Cheers,
 
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