“Preposition ‘AT’: High-Frequency Exam Rules with Examples”
“The preposition ‘AT’ is most commonly asked in competitive exams, it is asked generally in fillers, paragraph fillers and in spotting error, confusion arises when we don't have an idea to use it. in this blog we will learn the characteristics of "at" let's understand it by step by step.
- At before Noun and pronoun
- At for place
- At for time
- At before Noun and pronoun
The formula always applies when prepositions are used in the sentence,
The formula is Preposition + Noun or pronoun
Noun always remains same but pronoun is always in objective case, like me, us, him, her, it, them and you.
Ex; I am talking to him.
Ex; she bought a gift for me.
Ex; They always discuss with her.
Ex; To him, nothing is impossible.
- At for place
At is commonly used to indicate an exact place.
Ex; she is standing at the door.
Ex; they were meeting at the restaurant.
Ex ; I am at home.
Ex; Father is at the office.
👇keep in mind these phrases always carry at before,
- At home,
- At office,
- At airport,
- At fire station,
- At railway station,
- At bus stand,
- At police station
- At bus stand etc.
Here we look for variations of at where it illustrates the way of using 'At' for time
- Before parts of day.
- before The name of meals.
- before The name of festivals.
- before am and pm.
- Before parts of day.
English has different of parts of speech but At comes for specific parts of speech so whenever they are found just make sure that At should be placed but if At is missing then sentence is considered wrong.
At dusk,
At noon
At twilight,
At night,
At midnight,
At sunset,
At sunrise, At dawn,
Before name of meals.
- At breakfast (6 to 9)
- Brunch(10 to 12)
- At lunch(12 to 2)
- At dinner(7 to 9)
- At mealtime
- supper ( after dinner whatever you eat it will be counted)
Ex; we will discuss everything at breakfast.
Ex: At lunch, i prefer dal and chawal.
Ex; i think, meeting will be organized at dinner.
- Before name of festivals.
Generally either of two prepositions comes before the name of festivals. first At which comes before name of festivals but the logic is (same day of festival) is found in the sentence then "At" comes before.
At + The name of festivals
but another logic is if discuss The duration of festivals ( it take days) then "On" is placed before the name of festivals
On + The name of festivals
Ex: we burn crackers at Diwali.
Ex: we worship the goddess Laxmi at Diwali.
Ex: children take the blessing of their elders at Diwali.
Ex: many brands offer 70 % flat discount on Diwali.
Ex: they were going their hometown on Diwali.
- Before am and pm.
The clock has two ways of expressing time,
The first o'clock time which always either of am and pm and the second is hours, if o'clock time comes then "At" comes before, and for Hour time "In" comes before,
Ex: All the classes start at 8 am.
Ex; Movie will start at 10 am.
Ex; I will catch you in two hours.
Ex; He will be back in 5 hours
This is all about the preposition 'At'. I hope all the confusions which you have been gone if you any kind of query, please feel free to drop message, i will try my level best give reply as soon as possible.
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