Dear Sir,
Request any one to brief the usage of IN / ON / AT…
I have been making mistakes in using these since from my school days.
Also please let me know a simple rule for avoiding those mistakes.
Thanks in advance for your kind help.
You may not have a response to this because there are a lot of different rules for when to use each one. It would take quite a lot of explaining.
Hi.
Atleast please explain anyone on that if possible!!
I guess i have mentioned “on” correctly!!
No rule, buddy. You just need to learn which preposition should be attached to the particular noun/verb. To me, however, choosing between “in” and “at” poses the biggest problem. Good news is that there are many instances in which they can be used more or less interchangeably. On most occasions, where to put “on” is quite obvious. Well, at least it tends to reflect the use of a similar preposition in my native language (Polish). You, however, as a native speaker of an Indian language (Hindi?), may find it a bit more challenging.
My advice? Watch movies in English with no translation, read books in English, play video games in English, listen to music in English trying to understand the lyrics and sooner or later you’ll get most of those rules right.
Cheers!
Hi Jaro,
Thank you for your encouraging advice! I wish i could learn clearly by your help!
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Also please let me know a simple rule for avoiding those mistakes.[/quote]
(1) I agree with the other posters: there is no “simple rule.”
(2) As one great grammarian said, prepositions are NOT part of grammar. They are idioms. That is, they depend on what most native speakers decide is “correct.”
(3) Here in the United States of America, we say “Tom lives ON Maple Street.” But in England, they use IN.
(4) Americans ask “What are you doing ON the weekend?” But our British friends use AT.
(5) In some parts of the United States, we say “wait IN line” while in some parts of the United States, people use ON.
The only way to learn the “correct” preposition is to read, read, and read. Whenever you have questions, just come here to english-test. net. The wonderful people here will be happy to give you some advice.
There are rules for them. Here are some taken from a website from a quick search as an example:
Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
[i]We use at to designate specific times.
#The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
We use on to designate days and dates.
#My brother is coming on Monday.
#We’re having a party on the Fourth of July.
We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
#She likes to jog in the morning.
#It’s too cold in winter to run outside.
#He started the job in 1971.
#He’s going to quit in August.[/i]
Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in
[i]We use at for specific addresses.
#Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
#Her house is on Boretz Road.
And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).
#She lives in Durham.
#Durham is in Windham County.
#Windham County is in Connecticut.[/i]
There are more…prepositions of location, movement…
But there are so many differences, calling them a ‘rule’ might be a bit misleading.
As James and Jaro said, it’s a bit like ‘articles’, there are so many different rules, trying to ‘learn’ them is not that easy.
You will eventually get to know them just through using English, though it’s still worth studying them to help you along.
I’d do a quick search as I did and you’ll find them all.
Can I use as below using the preposition ‘in’ instead of ‘on’.:
Her house is in Boretz Road.
Dear all,
This has made me to understand the usage of in at on!!!
My sincere thanks to all for spending your valuable time to explain on the same !!! 
That’s the correct British English usage.
And I thank you for your thoughtful note.