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Post by veggie on Mar 15, 2004 20:04:20 GMT -5
what do you say in Englih - in, on or at lessons? please help me asap! thank you!!!
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Post by KenWalsh on Mar 16, 2004 0:50:20 GMT -5
In America, we say we are taking lessons, in school/college (long term), or at school/college (for the day). Hope this helps.
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Post by veggie on Mar 16, 2004 15:56:23 GMT -5
thank you, ken, can you give some examples, cause i don't really know the difference between LONG TERM & FOR THE DAY  and one more: a teacher RUNS classes/lessons? thank you  |
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Post by KenWalsh on Mar 18, 2004 0:35:18 GMT -5
An instructor teaches classes or teaches lessons. To run a class refers not to the lessons learned but to handling unruly students and running a well-disciplined class (class here means the roomful of students) like a well-oiled machine.
If I attend college for four years, I would say that I am in college.
When Juan drove his car to school on Monday, his mother told his aunt that he was at school.
From 9:30 to 10:30, I am in Chemistry class.
I take guitar lessons on Saturdays.
Do these examples show the prepositions more clearly? Learning Polish prepositions was also very difficult for me. For example, English uses the preposition for to describe many different relationships with different Polish prepositions.
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Post by paulina on Mar 21, 2004 17:54:57 GMT -5
it's clearer every time I read your answer thanks by the way I found "in the lesson" somewhere a few days ago. it's correct, right? |
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Post by KenWalsh on Mar 21, 2004 18:11:33 GMT -5
I have difficulty using all of the possible prepositions with a single word, but "in a lesson" would fit nicely to describe a concept that will be taught during today's class. At the beginning of a chapter, you might see:
In today's lesson, you will learn the verbs of motion.
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Post by xeo on Jun 12, 2004 12:54:21 GMT -5
let me show you a trick you can use every time you are not sure which preposition is correct...
in such cases your preposition can be replaced by "during"
just look:
during a lesson, during exams, during my school year, during classes...
every time you are not sure check whether it is possible to use "during" or simply try to paraphrase your sentence...
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