difference between "in the class" and "at the class"?

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I think i have seen both of them but i can't remember in which situation. For example she talks alot in / at the calss? Thank you.

Rover_KE · Accepted Answer

'She talks a lot in class.'

'She talks a lot in the classroom.'

(Always capitalise I.)

Prajwalkr · Answer

nedaa difference between "in the class" and "at the class"? (Original post) I think i have seen both of them but i can't remember in which situation.

Use at when talking specifically about the location or a place.

The teacher asked me to meet her at the class tomorrow.
I am at the airport.(You may be at the outside of the airport or inside or even quite close to it also)

Use in when talking about the inside of an enclosed area, rather than the outer structure or the location.

I am in the airport. (You are inside the structure)
I wanted to meet him at that corner, but I found her in the mall.

Also note that these are usually interchangeable in most of the contexts.

Regards
Prajwal

Nedaa · Answer

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Nedaa · Answer

So I should say "she talks a lot in the classroom". Could you please give me an example for "at the class"?

Rover_KE · Answer

The 'class' is either a lesson or the students assembled for it.

I can't think of any context in which I would write or say 'at the class'.

Rover

Nedaa · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

I have an example.
What about the following sentence:

'I meet my friends at/on/in dance class.'

Which preposition is supposed to be used?

Anonymous · Answer

Everyone in class is looking forward to this exercise or Everyone at class is looking forward to this exercise ?

Anonymous · Answer

Can you define calss?which you have used in your sentence..Thank you

Anonymous · Answer

Well, first of all, you should take care of your context and background. And, you have to know the word that you mean; class, as a lecture or as a classroom?

So, since you haven't mentioned about that point, I'll give you all the possibilities and the clear answers..

We usually use AT to talk about the area of a place: he is at home, or, he is in that volume of the house and not the place itself; we can easily realize that it means the place, too.

If your background was about the word (classroom), you can say:

1- if you are out of the class, and someone asks you, ”where is your friend?”, you reply with

he's in the class” which means he's inside the class.

2- the same situation is applied in a different point which is that if you are in the class, and someone asks you ” where's lucy?”, you reply ” she's in the class” since you are both at that place.

3- using AT here isn't really a good idea since the word class is specific and not general as (school, home, mall, etc...). But, if you once said he's at the class, its fine if you intended to mean that he is in that area or volume of the class, though.

Note that when you are both inside the class and your intention is to mean you are in that area, you always use IN; do not speak in my class. Here, both the teacher and the student are in that place, the teacher wouldn't be out for sure! Instead, or in most cases, for showing exclamation and strong feeling, we can use (at) but weakly sometimes; when the teacher is angry at a student, he asks: why are you shouting? Where are you? And the student replies with, ” where am i, sir!” I'm at the class! Considering to mean to everyone that the question is really silly! You can use (in) in that case too..

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Let's move to the meaning of (lecture):-

1- if you want to talk about instances that take a specific period of time not less than an hour at least (an event), you use (At); I'm at the party, he's at the class, I'm at the marathon, etc...

2-if you want to speak about a specific class, you would say (my uncle, which has graduated recently, did really well in his first class).

3-let it be as if you are having a lecture, and your mom calls you. She asks ”where are you?” and you reply with either IN or AT the class considering yourself as either: (to talk about yourself only) use IN, or if you remember to keep your mother in mind, you would rather say ” I'm at the class”. The second one is an answer for her and not for you. You wanted her to understand better, using your unconscious mind.

Thank you so much, hope this benifets everyone and not only the person who asked.

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