I hear many Nigerians saying living in Victoria Island.
Do you live in an island or on an island?

I live on Victoria Island is the right way and not I live in Victoria Island.

You can say I live in Ikoyi. But you cannot say I live in Victoria Island.

Please, let us correct ourselves so that we can improve our knowledge of English Grammar.

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I feel you man you man. You can only live on a island but live in the mainland

London is an Island, therefore I live on London. Right?

pally we all know that since naw. you mean you just discovered it or what?? u can make a good english teacher anyway!!

Orikinla,i dat d only error u want 2 correct.Let try 2 correct other blunders we do commit.Moreso,Victoria Island is a place totally surrounded by water.Do u now live in Island or on a land surrounded by water?

I actually said, Please correct my grammar before the title was changed by Nairaland.

Correct me and I correct you and we can correct ourselves.

Seun:

London is an Island, therefore I live on London. Right?

I live on London too funny

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Ikoyi is also an Island, but you cannot say I live on Ikoyi.
Just say it right.
It is better to say I live on Victoria Island.
Finis.

No need to argue over it.

I have heard many Nigerians saying, "I does it."

I'm not convinced. Victoria Island is a place name like Nairaland.

"I live on Victoria's island" would be correct.
"I live on the beautiful Island" would also be correct.
"I live on Victoria Island" is not.

Victoria Island in is used the same way as "Lagos" or "Abeokuta", so Orikinla is wrong. A place named Victoria Island might not even be an island.

Okay, I live on Nairaland!

Seun, you just missed the point.

Seun:

I'm not convinced. Victoria Island is a place name like Nairaland.

"I live on Victoria's island" would be correct.
"I live on the beautiful Island" would also be correct.
"I live on Victoria Island" is not.

Victoria Island in is used the same way as "Lagos" or "Abeokuta", so Orikinla is wrong. A place named Victoria Island might not even be an island.

i was expecting someone to say the right thing and Seun finally said it, he is a smart one. , This is a situation they called Notional Prepositional Agreement. You can use IN or ON, depending what you have in mind. If you use IN, you refer to V.I as the Name of a Location, If you use ON,you refer to V.I as a geographical attribute. Sorry i'm no English teacher but if you have written GMAT International (for American Masters program), you would be familiar with all these.