Do you like to stay in bed late on the weekends? What time are
you usually at work until Have you ever been on a farm or in the
mountains? Oh? Maybe you see where this conversation is going. Huh,
let's discuss Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from New York
City. And here's your English teacher, Michael Alry. Thank you John,
and thanks everyone. It's Michael here from Happy English and I help people speak
English better. This is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven twenty two. Phrases
with at, in and on. Last week in episode seven twenty one,
we talked about using at and in to talk about location. Today, I'd
like to get into how we use in at and on in some set phrases
also to talk about location. Let's get the ball rolling first. Here's a
little review. As I mentioned last time, we tend to use at with
an action verb and in with the b verb. Here are some examples of
that. You can arrive at the park and be in the park. You
can work at your desk and be in the office until eight pm. You
can drink coffee at a cafe and be in the cafe for an hour.
There are also a number of set phrases with either in or at, but
not both. Let's check those out. If you are in bed, it
means that you are sleeping or relaxing in your bed, and usually that means
under the covers. You can also be at work, which means you are
working at your workplace. You can also be in class, which means you
are studying with your classmates and the teacher in the classroom. And if you
like water, you can be at sea, which means you're probably on a
cruise somewhere traveling in the ocean. In bed, at work, in class,
at sea. These are set phrases and you can't use another preposition with
them with the same meaning. Next, let's go to a farm. You
can live or work on a farm. You can arrive at a farm for
a weekend stay to enjoy the countryside life. How about the beach. You
can go to the beach. You can arrive at the beach and you can
spend the whole day on the beach. How about a park. You can
go to a park. You can arrive at the park and you can spend
your whole day in the park and have a picnic in the park. And
speaking of natural places, bears live in the mountains, which means an area
of several mountains. Bears live in caves in the mountains. In the wintertime,
you can see snow on a mountain or snow on the mountains, And
in the summertime you can can see trees on a mountain or trees on the
mountains. And finally, we have the phrase at home. I was at
home all day yesterday at home. In this case, home is used as
a noun at home, but the word home could also be used as an
adverb without a preposition. I was home all day yesterday, I was home
or I was at home. That's right, you can be home or be
at home. We use both of those patterns again, because the word home
is used as a noun and as an adverb. Keep in mind, the
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