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#2 (permalink) Tue Jul 19, 2005 18:49 pm Ok |
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| My guess is gonna be " come to" just because the most common use of "come at" is attack somebody. |
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Rich7 I'm here quite often ;-)
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#3 (permalink) Sat Jul 23, 2005 16:31 pm Come "to" or "at" an intersection |
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. 'To' is a preposition of motion, and 'come' is a verb of motion-- 'I came to school', 'I came to my senses'.
'At' is a preposition of location, and is used with stative verbs-- 'I sat at the station', 'I arrived at the airport'.
'As I was driving' is fine, but perhaps redundant. . _________________ Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's |
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#4 (permalink) Mon Jul 25, 2005 18:45 pm Come "to" or "at" an intersection |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: |
. 'To' is a preposition of motion, and 'come' is a verb of motion-- 'I came to school', 'I came to my senses'.
'At' is a preposition of location, and is used with stative verbs-- 'I sat at the station', 'I arrived at the airport'.
'As I was driving' is fine, but perhaps redundant. . |
Thank you for the helpful reply. So "I came to an intersection" is the right answer.
Also "arrived at the intersection" (when the intersection is also the destination) and "arrived at a crossroad" are correct. Please do correct me if I am wrong.
You wrote: 'To' is a preposition of motion and 'at' is a preposition of location. Are there explanations such as these for other prepositions? If so where/which book could I find them in?
Also thank you for pointing out the redundancy. |
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Abecedarian I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#5 (permalink) Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:36 am Come "to" or "at" an intersection |
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. Yes, those are right, ABCDarian. Any good grammar book should have a section on the types of prepositions; you can also google for them, and come up with such sites as THIS ONE. (I called them 'prepositions of motion', but here they are called 'prepositions of direction'.)
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