What preposition is needed? - He stays home ... the day.

[Lephuoc]

He stays home ........... the day.

[Kitosdad]

throughout, would fit the sentence well.
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[Gray]

What about this? --

He stays home the whole day.
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[Daemon99]

But that would change the word order, wouldn't it?
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[Gray]

[SkiIucK]

'During' would fit in as well.

[Kitosdad]

I love this discussion.

Honestly, I am ashamed to say that I am unsure which of our suggestions is a preposition. That was the original question. LOL.
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[Kitosdad]

1) He stays home the whole day.

2) He stays home throughout the day.

I think the first gives a fixed amount of time, whereas the second doesn't give that suggestion, merely most of the day.
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[Daemon99]

[Kitosdad]

Thanks for your input Daemon99.

I work only from my vocabulary memory and the " feel " of the sentence.
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[Lephuoc]

"during " seems the best

[Raufjfdp]

I am at US now. Even though u think u suggest the better answer I never heard such phrase during the day. So u r wrong. The answer is correct if u use whole day or all day.

[Lephuoc]

aha

[Alan]

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Hi Lephuoc,

Just for the record I would like to agree that 'during the day' is perfectly acceptable. As used here the suggestion is that something else happens at other times as in: During the day he stays at home and at night he goes out.

Alan
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[Lephuoc]

Thank you Alan. You are very kind!