What's up guys! Today's we're going talk about the differences between the prepositions of place: at, in, and on.
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Alright, by the end of this video, it should be clear to you when to use the words at, in, and on when talking about place.
Let's take a look.
We're going to start with the word "at."
We use the word "at" to identify the general location of something.
With the word "at," we are not specifying whether we are inside or outside of some place,
we are only identifying the place we are at.
For example, let's pretend that my wife is at home but I am not,
and my wife calls me to ask me where I am.
My response might be: "I'm at the bank right now."
I use the word "at" because I want to identify my location relative to the world around me.
I wouldn't say "I'm in the bank," because it doesn't matter whether I'm inside or outside the bank,
my wife does not care about that.
She only wants to know my general location.
Okay, now let's pretend that my wife and I had planned to meet at the bank at 3pm.
However, when she gets to the bank and goes inside, she doesn't see me.
So, she calls me and says: "Why aren't you at the bank?"
and I tell her: "I am at the bank. I'm in the manager's office."
Let's look at this response. Because my wife thinks I'm not at the bank,
I first tell her that I am at the bank. I'm telling her my general location.
But because it's also clear that my wife is at the bank looking for me,
I then tell her I'm in the manager's office, which is a specific room inside of the bank.
I would not say "I am at the manager's office," because in this case,
the manager's office is not a general location, it is a specific room inside of a general location.
And that, my friends, is the situation in which we use the word "in" to talk about place.
The word "in" is used to say that we are in a specific room inside of a bigger location.
For example: "I'm in my bedroom." Here, my general location is my house,
so I would say "I'm at my house,"
but if I want to specify the specific room inside of the house, I would say "I'm in my bedroom."
Another example: I would say "I'm at school right now," but I would say "I'm in the classroom right now."
The school is my general location, so I use the word "at,"
and the classroom is the specific room inside of the school, so I use the word "in." Got it?
Okay, another usage of the word "in" in relation to place is to talk about certain vehicles,
specifically vehicles with 4 wheels.
For most vehicles, we say that we are "on" them, but with most 4-wheeled vehicles,
we use the word "in." For example:
The one exception to this rule is with busses. We say: "I'm on the bus."
And with all other vehicles that do not have 4 wheels, we usually use the word "on."
But hold on, there's one more important usage of the word "in" when talking about place.
We also use the word "in" if we are talking about an outside location that surrounds us.
For example: "I'm in the forest."
In this case, the forest is an outside location surrounding us.
There are many trees on all sides of us.
Another example: "I'm in the desert."
In this case, the desert is also an outside location surrounding us. We are in the middle of this big desert.
One more example: "I'm in my backyard."
In this case, my backyard is an outside location that contains me within it.
Alright, now let's finish with the easiest of the three prepositions of place: "on."
We already saw that we use the word on for vehicles that do not have four wheels.
For example:
Besides vehicles, the other situation when we use the word "on" to describe place
is when we want to emphasize that we are on top of something.
For example, I would not say I'm on my room, because I'm not on top of my room. I'm inside of it.
However, I could say "My phone is on the bed,"
because I'm emphasizing the fact that my phone is on top of the bed.
I could also say "The trash is on the ground,"
because I am emphasizing the fact that the trash is on top of the surface of the ground.
One more example: "The little girl is sitting on her father's shoulders."
In this case, we are emphasizing the fact that the girl is literally on top of her father's shoulders.
Okay, so in summary:
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