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Hello there, Today am going to teach you how to use the
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preposition “AT, ON and IN”.
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I know it is usually confusing which one to use in different scenarios.
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Here are the best situations and general rules.
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When talking about time, IN is used to refer to a general, long period
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of time, such as months, years, decades, or centuries, for example “IN April,” “IN
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2015”, “IN the 21st century.”
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ON is used to talk about particular days, dates, and holidays, e.g., “I went to work
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on Monday.”
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AT is used to refer to hours, minutes or very specific times, .e.g., “The train will come
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at 10:00 AM”, “He's still working at midnight.”
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When talking about space and address, IN is used to refer to a large land-area like
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City, States, Countries, etc., while ON is used to talk about street level locations
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like road, avenue, etc., AT is used to refer to a specific or concrete address, like street
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number.
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For example, “Michael lives ON 12th street IN New York
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City.”
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“Her office is AT 250 Market Street in San Francisco.”
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“Brazil is in South America.”
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You can see, IN normally refers to a large space or long period, ON is relatively smaller,
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shorter, but still not a concrete location or time, while AT is the smallest and shortest,
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it often refers to a very specific location or time.
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With this information, you can handle 95% of the use-cases, but you know, there're
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always exceptions in English, like: when talking about surface, we always use
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ON. while we use on when referring to days, but
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IN is used for parts of days, like in the morning, in the afternoon, etc.
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Hope now you can use AT ON and IN more confidently.
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Thanks for watching.