Grammar Question......?

Question

Which is correct?

"I made a RSS subscription of your blog."
or
"I made a RSS subscription to your blog."


and how can i tell when i should use "of" or "to"?
can someone explain them to me?


I'm sry, but english is not my mother language.

Answer 1

I would say: I subscribed to your blog. If you wanted the RSS part, I would say: I subscribed to an RSS feed of your blog. There may be a subtle difference between "to" and "from", but I don't know it. I would use "to" and that is a lot more common, but "of" doesn't sound so wrong either. And I am talking about when you use it with the noun subscription, when you are using the verb to subscribe, to is the only choice.

Answer 2

In English, you subscribe "to" someting - a magazine, a newspaper, whatever. Which preposition to use with a verb is one of those things that just happens - there are no real rules or guides.

If I may - one other correction: You should use "... an RSS subscription...". I know that "R" is a consonant, not a vowel, and looks like it should take "a", but in cases like this, the sound rules. When you say "R", it starts with a vowel sound, and should have "an".