i'm having a hard time reading
on the train right now
oh
hold on i'll start the lesson
hi
james from england sorry i was on the
train
i want to teach you a lesson about four
basic uh prepositions that we use in
english that sometimes get confused and
i understand why so i'll keep it basic
but because it's basic it's going to be
80 correct that's a good thing that
means you can go to the website and
learn more from other lessons we have
but just know that sometimes there'll be
exceptions and i may not cover it here
today i'll even give you two exceptions
to help you
but why waste time let's go to the board
here's mr e you'll notice he has a
calendar
he has a clock and you are here
oh here here is a location we're here
right now doing the lesson that's the
location invid let's go to the board and
do the rest of the lesson shall we
here's at on in and by
at i love it because it's very specific
so you always know where you are exactly
problem for transportation at doesn't
have anything
so let's go to the next one
let's go to on on
on is used for let's say large
vehicles or large ways of traveling
such as buses
sorry trains buses planes and boats i'll
come back to boat in a second it's an
exception
on the train on the bus and on the plane
unless you're bill gates
donald trump or me
i'm not in that list you don't have your
own train plane or bus so you usually
share it with a bunch of people or a few
people it's large so we say you're on
the bus because it covers a big area so
there are many people sitting in that
area when i get to location you'll see
what i mean
boat is a small exception for many
people in the world they have their own
boats because maybe they do fishing or
rowing which is a type of boat that you
don't go by yourself
in that situation you can use in
so if the boat is small enough say in
i'm in a boat right now but if it's a
big boat you have to say i'm on a boat
another exception
for the on rule is bicycle you were
always
on a bicycle
i know i said big vehicles but remember
a bicycle is small and it doesn't really
have a motor or an engine so we kind of
give it its own thing because you have
to sit on the bicycle and you can never
really be in a bicycle
is that good
now let's go to in
in is funny because there are only two
things for n
in we use for car and taxi
the easy way to think about it is
usually you own your own car
it doesn't belong to a group of people
people just don't get on your car every
time you stop it they go in and say take
me somewhere
and a taxi well when you're in the taxi
it is kind of your car you pay the
driver and you keep the car so this is
one of those few cases where because it
belongs to me
i am in my car or i am in the taxi
because the taxi belongs to me as long
as i pay the money it's one of these
funny exceptions i don't know why
because you can put more people in a car
but i guess because you can actually own
this transportation it's yours think of
it like the small boat the small boat
one person is in it you can be inside of
it all right
cool the last one we're going to do is
buy
this is how you get there so buy is
different when we talk about in and on
you are we are talking about how you are
in the vehicle are you sitting on the
bicycle i can see you on it
you know a boat is on water
but by is mean how did you get here
so when someone responds to you with buy
car by plane they're telling you how
they got here not if they're in the
plane or on the plane they are just
that's how they got there so how did i
get here to do this video
wouldn't you like to know
i'm kidding i came here by car
so yes i was in my car and drove here
but i would tell somebody i got here by
car not by bus and that would tell them
the difference in the transportation i
took how did you get here you like that
good so that's buy
this is how you did it and the way you
traveled is here in and on remember
there is a small exception for small
vehicles so a small boat you can be in
remember small and a bicycle you're
always on the bicycle because people see
you sitting on it are we good
excellent now that is the lesson for
transportation let's look at location
you'll notice that the same rules or
ideas apply
remember i said i liked at because it's
specific
notice the dot
it's very specific
meet me at my house that does not mean
down the street that does not mean in
another city it means my house you meet
me at my house specific location
or i'll give you an address meet me at
51 eglinton
not in 51 eglinton no at that means
right there you can see the number and
the place
like it i do too
on
if you notice this is a dot and this is
like a carpet or an area
this is why i said on the bus the train
and the plane they are big they have an
area
and because of that we say on because
you stand in an area so on
we put things on a table
imagine nope how about this
this is a better table
i'm going to put something
on the table you can see it on and here
is an area
cool
that's for on
in
i can use the same thing
that's the next one
in there is a surface but you have to go
over and in something remember i said on
here
this is now in
you can't see it anymore can you
because it's inside with a bunch of
markers it's inside but when it's on
the surface
you'll notice on
you can see it
in
like magic it disappears okay so in
usually you have walls or something
surrounding you
that you can look up and see the walls
you'll see there's the board here and
there are three other walls so i'm in a
room but i'm on the floor because i'm
standing on the floor okay so if the
floor was here this would be me
but i would go in the room
and now you need a door to see me okay
so in and on
bye
many of you know close and near so if
you think of two things
okay here's one thing here's two things
we can say
this is by the red marker
similar to saying close or near we just
say buy
there's eight percent of this marker i
said eighty percent lesson but it seems
it's gone down
but by similar to closer near and you
notice the arrows here show you if i say
i'm close to your house or buy your
house it's similar to saying bye or near
okay cool
now i'm going to deal with time
when we deal with time we'll start it at
at
remember i said very specific that's why
i like it this is when you say things
like at 9 15 at 12 o'clock
it's a very specific time and we deal
with hour and minute
what time will i meet you at 10 30.
specific that doesn't mean 12 that's not
at okay
day so sorry on when we talk about on we
talk about days
on monday on tuesday and if you're
confused think of it this way
a day
has 24 hours it's kind of got a surface
to it it's not just one specific time
it's got a little bit of time on it so
on that day okay anything can happen on
that day on the surface we stand on it
and we walk across it you wake up
then you go to sleep so on that day
funny enough you can say things like on
christmas day
on monday on my birthday
so if you have a word that has a day in
it you can use on
told you i'll make it easy it's 80 true
there'll be exceptions i know someone
will say one but just think did i say
day in there
on the holiday right you can say it
because it's got day make it easy okay
now we've talked about specific time
with at
and on the day
with on let's look at in
when i say something like in september
what i'm talking about are long periods
of time
we can say that for years
months and weeks
so for instance i can even go back in
the past and say in 1992 i came to
canada
or in september i will buy a hat
now we're talking about specific time as
we did in on and at but this time we're
talking about
longer periods of time and we're being
very specific
now i'm going to go to one more for you
and we're going to go by buy
buy is fantastic because it's the end of
a specific time
if i say i need it done by tonight
that is the time it's specific and
that's the end time or your limit
and funny enough that's the end of my
lesson i'm at the limit i've hoped you
enjoyed it e has been helpful bringing
out the calendar and the clock and
giving us a location
quick recap you can use at on in and by
for transportation location and time
when we deal with transportation there
are a couple exceptions you want to
remember
on is used for large
groups of people traveling by train bus
plane or boat but sometimes a boat can
be for one person and you can say in
we also use
bicycle for on and that's because you
sit on the bicycle
when we talk about in we use it for car
and taxi because that's usually your
private vehicle even though you say
taxis public when you're in it it's
yours as long as you pay for it and it's
also small
okay
buy is how you get there by car plane or
train
when we went for location we talked
about specific with at
on the surface or in in an area for on
like a carpet think like carpet in think
like a box you go in a box
and buy is similar to close or near or
close to when you've used it and finally
for time we talked about specific time
okay using these prepositions
at is one time only
on is for days on monday on christmas
day
in is used for longer periods of time
like in september or we can go back into
the past
in 1992
and finally
end time when we use buy
okay and we say that's the end
and that's the end of this particular
lesson so
i'd like to thank you once again for
coming to invid and what did i say i
need you to go to
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as ningvid
english v as invideo.com where you can
go do the quiz and see how well you
learned your lesson okay and by now i
think you've got 80 of it correct okay
see you later
you