{"id":73695,"date":"2020-04-03T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73695"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:21:49","slug":"preposition-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/preposition-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Preposition At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>At\u00a0<\/b>is a <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/what-are-prepositions\/\">preposition<\/a> used to show the place, direction, time or manner of something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He works\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the market.<\/li>\n<li>We live<b>\u00a0at\u00a0<\/b>home.<\/li>\n<li>Throw the ball\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the stumps.<\/li>\n<li>We have breakfast\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>eight.<\/li>\n<li>She ran\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>top speed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After some verbs,\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>is used to indicate the target of a perception or non-verbal communication. Common examples are <em>look, smile, wave, frown, point.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The child looked\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>its mother.<\/li>\n<li>Why are you looking\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>her like that?<\/li>\n<li>She smiled\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>At\u00a0<\/b>is also used after some verbs referring to attacks or aggressive behaviour. Common examples are shoot, laugh, throw and shout.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are you shouting\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>me?<\/li>\n<li>Stop throwing stones\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the cat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Place<\/h3>\n<p><b>At\u00a0<\/b>is used to talk about position at a point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is very hot\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the centre of the earth.<\/li>\n<li>He works\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes we use\u00a0<b>at<\/b>\u00a0with a larger place, if we think of this as a stage on a journey or a meeting place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plane stops for an hour\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>Chennai.<\/li>\n<li>Let us meet\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>At\u00a0<\/b>is particularly common with proper names used for buildings or organizations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I first met your father\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>Harrods.<\/li>\n<li>She works\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the State Bank of India.<\/li>\n<li>She was educated\u00a0<b>at<\/b>\u00a0Oxford.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We generally use\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>to talk about addresses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you still\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the same address?<\/li>\n<li>She lives\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>73 Albert Street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>At<\/b>\u00a0can be used with a possessive to mean \u2018at somebody\u2019s house or shop\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are always\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>the hairdresser\u2019s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>At\u00a0<\/b>is also used before the names of group activities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>At\u00a0<\/b>a party<\/li>\n<li><b>At\u00a0<\/b>a meeting<\/li>\n<li><b>At\u00a0<\/b>a concert<\/li>\n<li><b>At\u00a0<\/b>a lecture<\/li>\n<li><b>At\u00a0<\/b>a match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Time<\/h3>\n<p>We use\u00a0<b>at<\/b>\u00a0with clock times.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I usually get up\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>six o\u2019 clock.<\/li>\n<li>I will meet you\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>4.15.<\/li>\n<li>We have breakfast\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>nine.<\/li>\n<li>Phone me\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>lunch time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>At night\u00a0<\/b>means\u00a0<i>during any night<\/i>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I often work\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We use\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>to talk about the whole of the holidays at Christmas, New Year, Easter and Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are having the roof repaired\u00a0<b>at\u00a0<\/b>Easter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0is a preposition used to show the place, direction, time or manner of something. He works\u00a0at\u00a0the market. We live\u00a0at\u00a0home. Throw the ball\u00a0at\u00a0the stumps. We have breakfast\u00a0at\u00a0eight. She ran\u00a0at\u00a0top speed. After some verbs,\u00a0at\u00a0is used to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1304,898,1306],"class_list":["post-73695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-at","tag-preposition","tag-preposition-at"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73696,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73695\/revisions\/73696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}