WRONG
In English the phrase on a bank account is ALWAYS WRONG!
RIGHT
Payments are made into a bank account;
money is transferred to a bank account;
and, once a payment or transfer has been made, money is in a bank account.
- abbreviations
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Articles
- British/US English
- bullet points
- Clear and concise writing
- Commas
- Compound nouns
- Conditionals
- Conjunctions
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Gerunds
- Idioms
- Modal verbs
- Negation
- Noun groups
- noun phrases
- Nouns
- Numbers
- Participle clauses
- Passive voice
- Phrasal verbs
- polite expressions
- Possession
- Prepositions
- Punctuation
- Quantifiers
- Relative clauses
- Singular or plural
- Time expressions
- Useful everyday phrases
- verb phrases
- Verbs
- Verb tenses
- Weights and measures
- Word order
- writing lists
-
Recent Posts
Links
There is one situation where the preposition ‘on’ does make sense – “The amount has appeared on your bank account.”
It is limited to the verb “appeared’, and I believe is a shortening of “The amount has appeared on your bank account statement”.
In this example, it would be incorrect to say “The amount has appeared in your bank account statement.”
This is quite common usage in Australia and New Zealand at this time.