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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Prepositions of place
It states in the grammar that "at the centre" is a correct combination. Though I've heard phrase "in the centre" - is it correct to use it and in which cases?
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 5,686 citations for 'at and 6603 for 'in'. I looked few a few dozen of each and could not find any clear difference, though I got the impression that, if people are talking about somewhere that is not precisely at the the centre point, they are more likely to use 'in'. I do the same - I think.
- The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 5,686 citations for 'at and 6603 for 'in'.
- I looked few a few dozen of each and could not find any clear difference, though I got the impression that, if people are talking about somewhere that is not precisely at the the centre point, they are more likely to use 'in'.
- I do the same - I think.
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 5,686 citations for 'at and 6603 for 'in'. I looked few a few dozen of each and could not find any clear difference, though I got the impression that, if people are talking about somewhere that is not precisely at the the centre point, they are more likely to use 'in'. I do the same - I think.
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