Preposition of Place (at/in/on)

Use of preposition “at”

It is used when we refer to a particular point of place

Example

At the entrance

At the door

At the gate

At the address

At the corner

At the station

At the end of street

At the corner

At the bottom of page

Use of preposition “in”

It is used when the we refer to an enclosed space or someone/something inside a limited area.

Example

In USA

In delhi

In the room

In the park

In my wallet

In the hall

In the building

In his pocket

Note- ‘at’ is used for small place and ‘in’ is used for big place ,town,city,country.

Eg

Case -1 I live at Delhi in India.

Case -2 I live in Delhi.

Note-‘at’ shows still position where as ‘in’ shows movement.

Eg

Case -1 She is at school.

Case-2 The car is in the state of motion.

Use of preposition “on”

It is used when we refer to the surface of an object

Example

On  the floor

On the paper

On the wall

On the door

On the carpet

On the table

On the ceiling

Prepositions of Time At-In-On

The preposition " at "  

CASE -1 time indicated in the sentence is sharp and precise.
Example
1) I have to catch the train at 1 p.m.
2) Church close at noon.
3) I would like to talk to you at dinner time.
4) I love reading at bedtime.
5) The best time to offer prayer is at the sunrise or at sunset.
6) The show starts at 7.30 pm.
7) Its prohibited to go out at midnight.
8) I will meet you at the start of the match
note-'at't is used here with time of the day-sunrise,sunset,noon,midnight
CASE-2  at holidays or festivals
Example
1) I will go to home at Diwali
2) Maria is too busy at Christmas
CASE -3 at an age
Example
1) I would going to buy a car at an age of 18.
2) At 16, he joined his father's business.
CASE-4
at night
at the weekend
at the same time
at present
at any moment

The preposition "in"

used in a period(period of time/months/seasons/years/centuries)

Example

1)in 2 hrs.

2)in 4 days.

3)in February.

4) in summer

5)in 2011

6)in 20th century.
7)in the morning
8)in the afternoon

The preposition "on" 

used for days/dates/special days

Example

1) on Monday.

2) on 29 August..

3) on Father's day.

4) on my birthday.

5) on Independence day eve.
6) on Monday morning

Adjectives

The word which qualifies noun or pronoun is called "Adjective". Its is one of the 8 part of speech.It describes or give information about noun or pronoun.
Example
1)He is a brilliant student.(The word 'brilliant' is an adjective)
2)He is the first person in the history to achieve the target.(The word 'first' is an adjective)
3) The shortest day comes in December. (The word 'shortest' is an adjective)




Broadly the  adjectives can be classified as follows.
1) Adjectives of quantity.(some,little,few)
2) Adjectives of quality.(fine,brilliant,good)
3) Adjectives of number.(first,three,second)
4) Demonstrative Adjectives((this,that,these,those)
5) Interrogative Adjectives.((whose,which,what)
6) Possesive Adjectives.(my,your,our)

SPECIAL

Oftenly the adjectives consist of more than one word. It is called adjectival(Adjectival Phrase)
example

The chair which is in the room is made of wood.(the phrase 'which is in the room' is adjectival phrase')

The detail of each kind of adjective is discussed in subsequent posts.

Parts of the speech.

There are 8 parts of speech

1)Noun-Noun is a word that tells the name of a person , place , thing , an emotion or an idea.
Example- Ram goes to the market every evening.
Here Ram and market are nouns.

2)Pronoun-The word that takes place of a noun is called pronoun.
Example-Ram goes to the market every evening. He buys chocolates.
"He" is pronoun because it replaces the noun "Ram".

3)Verb-It is a word which shows action or state of being.
Ram goes to the market every evening.
"goes" is an action word so it is a verb.

4)Adverb-It is a word that describes verb.
Example- Ram generally goes to market every evening.
Here the word "generally" is an adverb.

5)Adjectives-A words that describes noun.
Ram goes to the super-market every evening.
Here the word "super" is an adjective.

6)Preposition-A word which relates noun or pronoun with the sentence.
Ram goes to the market in the evening.
Here "in"  is a preposition.

7)Conjunctions-It is a word that joins words or sentences.
Ram goes to the market and the park every evening.
Here "and" is a conjunction

8)Interjection-It is a word which express sudden emotions.
Wow!Ram goes to the market every evening.
here the word "Wow!" is an interjection.

Tricky articles v/s singular-plural

While converting singular sentences into plural, make sure that all the articles are removed.Similarly while converting plural sentences into singular,insert the proper article (a,an) before the noun(if necessary).

For example-

Case one(singular to plural)

a)     A chair is made of wood.

Ans) Chairs are made of wood.

b)     An airport is a busy place.

Ans) Airports are busy places.

Case two(plural to singular)

a)    Horses are animals.

Ans)A horse is an animal.

b)     Cows give milk.

Ans) A cow gives milk.

Note-No article is added before the word "milk" because it is an uncountable noun .

Pluralisation Errors

Following words need special attention before making their plurals

Child-Children

person-people

foot-feet

mouse-mice

tooth-teeth

man-men

woman-women

ox-oxen

goose-geese

Now look at the following words as they have same identical singular and plural form

aircraft-aircraft

fish-fish

headquaters-headquaters

sheep-sheep

species-species

deer-deer

Some nouns exists only in plural form

cattle

scissors

trousers

tweezers

congratulations

pyjamas

Note- The uncountable noun will take only singular form which will be discussed in the next post