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Laborious Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Prepositions of place (at or in)

Hi, 

I was doing an exercise on the prepositions of place in English and it's given here http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen/testsprepplace3.html

a). There were a lot of people ___ the party. (at/in)
(I choose 'in' to fill the gap, but they said it was wrong. Could you please tell me why "at", not "in" is correct or more appropriate?)

b). Susanne is ___ the meeting. (in/at) 
(I choose "at", but it wasn't correct according to them. Wouldn't it be appropriate to use "at" here, please?) 

Thank you. 
  

Top answer

There were a lot of people _at the party. - The party is considered a place. If "party" is used to mean a group of people, then you can use in .

— AlpheccaStars

  • There were a lot of people _at the party.
  • - The party is considered a place.
  • If "party" is used to mean a group of people, then you can use in .
  • (eg.
  • John is in the hunting party that left an hour ago.
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There were a lot of people _at the party. - The party is considered a place. If "party" is used to mean a group of people, then you can use in. (eg. John is in the hunting party that left an hour ago. )

Susanne is _in_ the meeting. It means that she is part of the meeting.
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AlpheccaStarsSusanne is _in_ the meeting. It means that she is part of the meeting.
For my sentence (a), you said that we can use 'at' if the party is considered a placeand 'in' if it
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LaboriousThere were a lot of people ___ the party. (at/in) ...
Susanne is ___ the meeting. (in/at)
I would use 'at the party' and 'in the meeting' or 'at the meeting', but not 'in the party'.

CJ
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