oxford practice grammar

✳️We use at:

⚜to refer to a position or location which we see as a point:

I was sitting at my desk.

⚜to talk about locations at companies, workplaces when we see them as a place of activity:

How many people are working at Microsoft?

⚜to refer to activities which involve a group of people:

Were you at Lisa’s party? (also at the cinema, at the theatre)

⚜with school/college/university:

She always did well at school.

⚜to refer to an address:

They once lived at number 12 South George’s Street.

⚜to talk about public places where we get treatments, such as a hairdresser’s or doctor’s surgery:

I can’t meet at four. I’ll be at the hairdresser’s until five.

⚜to refer to most shops:

Look what I bought at the butcher’s today.

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✳️We use at:

⚜to refer to a position or location which we see as a point:

I was sitting at my desk.

⚜to talk about locations at companies, workplaces when we see them as a place of activity:

How many people are working at Microsoft?

⚜to refer to activities which involve a group of people:

Were you at Lisa’s party? (also at the cinema, at the theatre)

⚜with school/college/university:

She always did well at school.

⚜to refer to an address:

They once lived at number 12 South George’s Street.

⚜to talk about public places where we get treatments, such as a hairdresser’s or doctor’s surgery:

I can’t meet at four. I’ll be at the hairdresser’s until five.

⚜to refer to most shops:

Look what I bought at the butcher’s today.

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