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PREPOSITION AT, IN, ON.

You say ' at the corner' or 'on the corner' when you are talking about streets

The car was parked at the corner of the street.
There's a telephone box on the corner

You say 'in the corner' when you are talking about a room

She put the chair in the corner of the room

3. You use 'in' when you are talking about place as an area. You use 'in' with :

• a country or geographical region 

When i was in Spain, it was terribly cold
A thousand homes in the east of Scotland suffered power cuts.

• a city, town, or village

I've been teaching at the college in London.

• a building when you are talking about people or things inside it.

They were sitting having dinner in the restaurant .

You also 'in' with containers of any kind when talking about things inside them.

She kept the cards in a little box.

4. Compare the use of 'at' and 'in' in these examples

1. I had a hard day at the office. {'at' emphasizes the office as a public place or institution }
2. I left my coat behind in the office. { 'in' emphasizes the office as a building}.
3. There's a good film at the cinema. {'at' emphasizes the cinema as a public place }
4. It was very cold in the cinema {'in' emphasizes the cinema as a building }

5. When talking about addresses , you use 'at' when you give the house number, and 'in' when you just give the name of the street.

 

They use to live at 5, Weston Road.

She got a job in Oxford Street.

Note that American English uses 'on' : He live on Penn Street.'

You use 'at' when you are talking about someone's house.

I'll see you at Fred house.

6. You use 'on' when you are talking about a place as a surface. You can also use 'on top of'.

I sat down on the sofa

She  put her keys on top of the television. 

You also use 'on' when you are thinking of  a place as a point on a line, such as a road. a railway line, a river, or a coastline.

Scrabster is on the north coast

Oxford is on the A34 between Birmingham and London.

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PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE- AT, IN, ON

                                     
Main Points

• You use 'at' to talk about a place as a point.
• You use 'in' to talk about a place as an area
• You use 'on' to talk about a place as a surface

   1. You use 'at' when you are thinking of place as point in space  
       
       She waited at the bus stop for over twenty minutes.
       Where were you last night ?' - 'At Mick's house. '

    2. You also use 'at' with words such as 'back', 'bottom', 'end', 'front', and 'top' to talk about the                different parts of a place.
     
        Mrs Castle was waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
        They escaped by the window at the back of the house.
        I saw a taxi at the end of the street.

        You use 'at' with public places and institutions. Note that you also say 'at home' and  'at work'.

         I have to be at the station by ten o'clock.
         We landed at the small airport.
         A friend of mine is at Training College .
         She wanted to stay at home

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PERBEDAAN ANTARA DESPITE / IN SPITE OF DAN ALTHOUGH / EVEN THOUGH

             

         Despite / in spite of , dan  although / even though mempunyai makna yang sama yaitu MESKIPUN  atau WALAUPUN . Meskipun demikian , kedua kelompok kata ini mempunyai perbedaan yang besar dalam structur kalimatnya .DESPITE dan IN SPITE OF diikuti oleh nomina, sedangkan ALTHOUGH , EVEN THOUGH / THOUGH selalu diikuti oleh clausa ( SUBJEK + VERBA )

         Despite / in spite of + nomina
         Although / even though / though + clausa

  Example

      a. Despite the rain he went to school
                        nomina
      b. In Spite of the rain , he went to school
                           nomina
      c. Although it rained , he went to school.
                           clausa                    
      d. Even though it rained , he went to school.
                                clausa