Saturday, November 6, 2010

Preposition - The Preposition IN

IN Indicating TIME


I will see Harsh at this same place in five minutes.

Roshan’s cousins will be coming to Delhi in July.

Zafar’s last movie had released in the year 2000.

The young and educated of India were leaving for foreign shores in the 1990s.

Gini has won several awards in the past.

India was a colonised state in the nineteenth century.

Patel decided that he will trim the bushes in the morning.

IN Indicating PLACE/POSITION/LOCATION

Jonathan will meet me in the afternoon at the Tarana restaurant.

Yash has been in the publishing industry for the last five years.

The star was shining brightly in the sky.

The children have been playing in the field all day long.

The lawyer was sitting in the chair, waiting for his client.

The A4-sized sheets are in the lower drawer.

Johnny lives in a three room apartment all by himself.

Meena has been living in this building for years.

I was in the lift when the power went off.

Gayatri has been living in China for three years.

Ramesh was born in Thrissur.

Rosie’s name is mentioned in the latest issue of Business Everyday.

I read an article in yesterday’s paper about how to perfect your English.

[Remember: Use ‘in’ with the name of a place when you think of it as an area.]

IN Indicating a SPECIFIC VEHICLE

All Chintamani wants to do is sit in a boat and fish all day long.

The suspect is hiding in the red Mercedes.

[Remember: Use ‘in’ when you mean a specific/particular car, taxi, lorry, van or ambulance.]

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