What is the difference between pay attention on and pay attention to?

What is the difference between "pay attention on" and "pay attention to"?
Many English language as a second language learners have troubles in distinguishing the differences present between the two options. However, throughout this post I'm going to tell you everything you need to understand about these phrases and guide you through the correct usage of this 'riddle'.

• To pay attention to someone or something is to keep concentrated on something or someone, i.e, to keep your attention on a thing.

1. Maggie has an SAT test tomorrow, therefore she's paying too much attention to her Mathematic professor explaining how the geometric graphs have gotten to that increasing point.
2. I have been paying attention to the children since their parents have left out.

Commonly speaking, the phrase to pay attention on something or someone has no sense and nothing to do with the direction of the attention. If we pay close attention to the preposition in the first explanation, we can see that, basically, the attention has a certain movement towards something: the object.
I hope have helped you out about the differences and keep studying!


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PBC- Department of Scientific English Language
- Chief Executive Officer
Pedro Benny C.