Preposition in, on, and at

Preposition in, on, and at

Preposition are a class of words that indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns and other words in a sentences.

PREPOSITION OF TIME: IN
English	Usage	Example
In	Year	In 2006
	Time of day	In the morning
	Month or Seasons	In August or In winter

PREPOSITION OF PLACE: IN
English	Usage	Example
In	Picture	In the picture
	Car, Taxi	In a car, In a taxi
	Book, Paper, etc.	In the book
	Room, Building, Street, Town, Country	In the kitchen, In London

PREPOSITION OF TIME: ON
English	Usage	Example
On	Dates	On 21 April
	Days of the week	On monday

PREPOSITION OF PLACE: ON
English	Usage	Example
On	Being on a surface	On the table
	For public transport	On the bus, On a plane
	For a television, Radio	On TV, On radio
	Names of the street, Avenues	On Gang Buntu
	For a certain side (Left, Right)	On the left

PREPOSITION OF TIME: AT
English	Usage	Example
At	For night	At night
	For weekend	At the weekend

PREPOSITION OF PLACE: AT
English	Usage	Example
At	For events	At a concert, At the party
	Place where you are to do something typical (watch a Film, Study, Work)	At the cinema, At school, At work

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Offering

Offering Expression  

• an expression when we want to offer something to someone.

The following are some expression used to offer, accept, and refused something.

No.	Offering Something	Accepting Something	Refusing something
1.	Do you need an umbrella?	Yes, I do. Thanks!	No, Thanks.
2.	Will you have some fruit?	Yeah, thank you so much.	Thank you for your offer, but I’m stuffed.
3.	Would you like to drink coffee?	Sure, Thank you.	Sorry, I don’t drink coffee.
4.	I have some pents, you may borrow one.	O.K. Thanks!	No need to brother, thanks.

Offering Help

No.	Offering Help	Responses
1.	Can I help you?	Yes, please.
2.	Let me help you with that.	Please don’t bother. I can manage.
3.	Do you need help?	That’s very kind of you.
4.	Can I give you a hand?	No, thanks.
5.	Can I get you something to drink?	No, thank you.

Example the dialog:
Queen: You look very exhausted.
               Where are you from dear?
Prince : I've just come back from hunting.
Queen: I see.
               Would you like to drink some water?
Prince : Yes, Mother.
               Thank you.

In the dialogue, the Queen is offering some thing to her son (the Prince). The Queen says "Now, would you like to drink some water?" to offer something. Meanwhile, the Prince says, "Yes Mother, thank you."

 

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