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InvisibleColonel Kurtz Ph.D
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Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q)
    #4706473 - 09/24/05 06:04 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

As some of you know I live in Spain and even tho my english is good enough to get my points across (not that I have so many anyway) there's still something that's bugging me... How the fuck do I know when to use "in", "at" and "on"?

Lord, this has been driving me insane for years and I still don't get it. I admit I skipped that class, but surey some of you my good friends here will help me out and make my life a lot less miserable :grin:
Thanks in advance! :laugh:


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #4706630 - 09/24/05 06:49 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

is spain at the edge of the sahara?-) baiting in a thread is grounds for banning!-) let's get it on then...

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: qhr0me]
    #4706651 - 09/24/05 06:52 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

I live in my house.
I'm at the mall.
I'm standing on a latter.


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #4706667 - 09/24/05 06:55 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Think of in as being short for inside. What's in(side) the box?
Also can be used to describe something fashionable. The "in" thing to do.

The other two are harder to describe. Let me ponder a bit.


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: LazyGnome]
    #4706670 - 09/24/05 06:57 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

*ladder

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #4706671 - 09/24/05 06:58 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Think of at as being short for located. Where is the dog (loc)at(ed)?


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: daimyo]
    #4706702 - 09/24/05 07:09 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

yea,

"I am 'at' my friends house"
"the shop opens 'at' 7:00am"


"doh i left my pipe 'on' the table outside, can you go get it?"
seriously, iam too lazy

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: sh0e]
    #4706824 - 09/24/05 07:54 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

IN We use in with months - in May
seasons - in winter
country - in Greece
city or town names - in New York
times of the day - in the morning, afternoon or evening
BUT at night!
ON We use "on" with specific days - on Friday, on New Year's Day, on April the 19th
American English - "on the weekend OR on weekends"
AT We use "at" with specific times - at 7 o'clock, at 6.15
at night
specific places in a city - at school
British English - "at the weekend OR at weekends"
TO We use "to" with verbs which show movement such as go and come - He goes to school.
She returned to the store.
They are coming to the party tonight.


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You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.

You know how shit you are, you just don't give a fuck for precisely that reason.

I disendorse you.[/quote]

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
    #4707199 - 09/24/05 09:21 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Let's get it ON
Hey you turn the tv ON please
Your ON it
Hey babe you really turn me ON
My keys are ON the table

Get IN the Car
Fill me IN
Turn yourself IN
Hey while you are IN town you should drop by

See this picture? That is me AT the mall
Mom I'll be AT mark's house
Where is the pot sack AT

Does that help any?


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: KristiMidocean]
    #4707388 - 09/24/05 09:57 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

"at" can also mean towards

"I spit at him" = "I spit towards him"
"he was pointing at the tv" = "he was pointing towards the tv"

"on" usually means "on top of"

"the bong is on the table" = "the bong is on top of the table"

it gets a little more confusing when you use it like:

"I'm on the internet"
"I'm fucked up on booze"

I really don't know how to explain that usage...

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: dr0mni]
    #4707472 - 09/24/05 10:20 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

This really is a challenge. Has me wondering if the reason we can't explain using on as in "what's on tv" is because it is not proper. Are we supposed to say "what is being broadcast to the television?"
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with a lack of proper English study(on my part anyhow) though.

We need an English professor to stop through this thread and get ON the case.


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: daimyo]
    #4707521 - 09/24/05 10:33 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)



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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: daimyo]
    #4707548 - 09/24/05 10:39 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

daimyo said:
Think of at as being short for located. Where is the dog (loc)at(ed)?




Since in, at and on are all prepositions, it is improper to use them at the end of a sentance.

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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: PinballWizard]
    #4707556 - 09/24/05 10:41 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

so make it Where is the dog? or where is the dog at, yo?


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: PinballWizard]
    #4707729 - 09/24/05 11:26 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

KidgardFromSRQ said:
www.dictionary.com



The dictionary, doh!  Should have thought to look in there for a good explanation :imslow:
On is used to indicate a lot of different things.

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PinballWizard said:
Since in, at and on are all prepositions, it is improper to use them at the end of a sentance.




A link that disagrees.


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Re: Help me improve my english! (very simple grammar q) [Re: daimyo]
    #4707743 - 09/24/05 11:30 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

How about I just assume you were speaking in dialect and let it slide. :wink:

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