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Unit 10: Parts of Speech and Common Errors in English

You should use since with a specific date or time. notes

Example: 1. He’s worked here since 1990.
2. She’s been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.

Prepositions of place: at, on, and in

We use at for specific addresses.

Example: Vivek lives at 55 Birhana Road in Kanpur.

We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.

Example: His house is on Birhana Road.
And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).

Example: He lives in Dehradun.

table 10.2: Prepositions of location: in, at, and on and no Preposition

in at on no PrePosition
(the) bed* class* the bed* downstairs
the bedroom home the ceiling downtown
the car the library* the floor inside
(the) class* the office the horse outside
the library* school* the plane upstairs
school* work the train uptown
* You may sometimes use different prepositions for these locations.

You use to in order to express movement toward a place.

Example: 1. They were driving to work together.
2. She’s going to the dentist’s office this morning.

Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply variant
spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.

Example: We’re moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project’s completion.
With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, no preposition is to
be used.

Example: Grandma went upstairs.
They both went outside.

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