Prepositions in, on and at Hello :) Maybe someone can help me to understand the correct use of in, at and on. Do you say: "Look at your phone you've got a message" or is it "Look on your phone.."? "Ha

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Laura Trabandt

Prepositions in, on and at Hello :) Maybe someone can help me to understand the correct use of in, at and on. Do you say: "Look at your phone you've got a message" or is it "Look on your phone.."? "Have a nice start in your workday" or "Have a nice start at your workday"? "Would you like to talk via skype on the phone" or "Would you like to talk via skype at your phone"? Or is there maybe a better way to say these things?

11 de feb. de 2019 6:20

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1. We would say "look at you phone." 2. We would avoid the word "workday" and say "have a nice day at work" or something like that. 3. We would say "on the phone."

11 de febrero de 2019

1. 'Look at your phone' refers to the physical object. 'Look at [something] ' means take your eyes off one thing and turn them towards something else. You look at your phone in the same way as you look at a picture or look at a magazine or look at a menu. 'Look at' is a standard combination of verb and preposition. 3. 'Talk on the phone' refers to the technology. We often use 'on' to refer to media and means of communication - on TV, on the radio, on the internet, on Skype.

11 de febrero de 2019

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