pls check if this is correct sentence

[PROESL]

Here is the menu from the Kashmir Restaurant. It is near where I live in Boston. Notice that samosas are 2 for $6!

Kashmir Boston | Food Delivery | GrubHub.com

Newbury Street

[Ann1977]

Newbury Street

Yup. Exactly. LOL!

After a morning knocking yourself out looking at a little something in cashmere from Loro Piana and checking out the sunglasses at the Chanel Boutique, why -- you think two samosas for $6 is a positive bargain.

[dragn]

in - places with limitations, restrictions, or boundaries - in the city or in the office, for example

Note that there are exceptions to this, however. For example, I can easily imagine someone saying the following:

My train trip from St. Louis to Chicago took forever! I think the train stopped at every town along the way.

Here, the speaker is thinking of those towns as mere points along a route. Of course, each of those towns has boundaries and limits; some may have populations of tens, even hundreds of thousands of people. But at the moment of speaking, those boundaries and limits are not being considered; they are irrelevant. At the moment of speaking, they are nothing but dots on a map.

On the other hand, of course, the same speaker would say:

I got off the train in Peoria and did some sightseeing.

Clearly, now we are thinking of the city of Peoria as a place with limitations, restrictions, or boundaries and in is certainly the correct preposition, just as PROESL pointed out.

Greg

P.S. I'm sorry I can't connect this with the price of samosas in Boston...would you settle for the price of stinky tofu in Taipei?

[Ann1977]

Note that there are exceptions to this, however. For example, I can easily imagine someone saying the following:

My train trip from St. Louis to Chicago took forever! I think the train stopped at every town along the way.

Here, the speaker is thinking of those towns as mere points along a route. Of course, each of those towns has boundaries and limits; some may have populations of tens, even hundreds of thousands of people. But at the moment of speaking, those boundaries and limits are not being considered; they are irrelevant. At the moment of speaking, they are nothing but dots on a map.

On the other hand, of course, the same speaker would say:

I got off the train in Peoria and did some sightseeing.

Clearly, now we are thinking of the city of Peoria as a place with limitations, restrictions, or boundaries and in is certainly the correct preposition, just as PROESL pointed out.

Greg

P.S. I'm sorry I can't connect this with the price of samosas in Boston...would you settle for the price of stinky tofu in Taipei?

And btw -- that was a nice point about stopping AT Peoria.

However I would like to caution everyone that getting off at Peoria is sure to be a mistake. Not so much a grammatical one -- more of a lifestyle error.

[konungursvia]

Here is the menu from the Kashmir Restaurant. It is near where I live in Boston. Notice that samosas are 2 for $6!

Kashmir Boston | Food Delivery | GrubHub.com

Holy cow. Samosas are 2 to 3 for a dollar here.

[PROESL]

Note that there are exceptions to this, however. For example, I can easily imagine someone saying the following:

My train trip from St. Louis to Chicago took forever! I think the train stopped at every town along the way.

Here, the speaker is thinking of those towns as mere points along a route. Of course, each of those towns has boundaries and limits; some may have populations of tens, even hundreds of thousands of people. But at the moment of speaking, those boundaries and limits are not being considered; they are irrelevant. At the moment of speaking, they are nothing but dots on a map.

On the other hand, of course, the same speaker would say:

I got off the train in Peoria and did some sightseeing.

Clearly, now we are thinking of the city of Peoria as a place with limitations, restrictions, or boundaries and in is certainly the correct preposition, just as PROESL pointed out.

Greg

P.S. I'm sorry I can't connect this with the price of samosas in Boston...would you settle for the price of stinky tofu in Taipei?

I understand that you mean, but I don't think this is really an exception. I think it has to do with a speaker's viewpoint. It's easy to view the towns as points on a line in this case.

My train trip from St. Louis to Chicago took forever! I think the train stopped at every town along the way.


We use at for locations or points on a line. So that's a regular or normal use of at.

It's possible to say "I think the train stopped in every town.", but given that the train travels on a track, which is a line, the towns are very easily viewed as points on that line. This is how we can explain the use of "at" in this sentence.

[Ann1977]

I understand that you mean, but I don't think this is really an exception. I think it has to do with a speaker's viewpoint. It's easy to view the towns as points on a line in this case.

My train trip from St. Louis to Chicago took forever! I think the train stopped at every town along the way.


We use at for locations or points on a line. So that's a regular or normal use of at.

It's possible to say "I think the train stopped in every town.", but given the train travels on a track, which is a line, the towns are very easily viewed as points on that line. This is how we can explain the use of "at" in this sentence.

I think dragn is confirming your point, demonstrating that even the apparent exceptions (such as "at Peoria") are not exceptions -- for the exact reason that you adduce here.

I have to say, PROESL, that I have always been fond of prepositional phrases since the day I saw the point instantly in the third grade -- ("The ships in the harbor (is)(are) ready to sail." See? I even remember the exact sentence! And my exact reaction -- "Oh man! I've got this knocked!") -- as I say, I have always felt a lot of affection for prepositional phrases, and now, because of all you know about prepositions, you are my Preposition Hero.

Allow me to sing a chanson des prépositions in your honor:

♫ Over!
Under! ♪
♪ Around and
through! ♬
♪ Sunny days chasin' the clouds away ... ♫

[PROESL]

I think dragn is confirming your point, demonstrating that even the apparent exceptions (such as "at Peoria") are not exceptions -- for the exact reason that you adduce here.

I have to say, PROESL, that I have always been fond of prepositional phrases since the day I saw the point instantly in the third grade -- ("The ships in the harbor (is)(are) ready to sail." See? I even remember the exact sentence! And my exact reaction -- "Oh man! I've got this knocked!") -- as I say, I have always felt a lot of affection for prepositional phrases, and now, because of all you know about prepositions, you are my Preposition Hero.

Allow me to sing a chanson des prépositions in your honor:

♫ Over!
Under! ♪
♪ Around and
through! ♬
♪ Sunny days chasin' the clouds away ... ♫

Thank you so much. I'm a preposition hero. That is so good. It is a an honor.

[anupumh]

I think dragn is confirming your point, demonstrating that even the apparent exceptions (such as "at Peoria") are not exceptions -- for the exact reason that you adduce here.

I have to say, PROESL, that I have always been fond of prepositional phrases since the day I saw the point instantly in the third grade -- ("The ships in the harbor (is)(are) ready to sail." See? I even remember the exact sentence! And my exact reaction -- "Oh man! I've got this knocked!") -- as I say, I have always felt a lot of affection for prepositional phrases, and now, because of all you know about prepositions, you are my Preposition Hero.

Allow me to sing a chanson des prépositions in your honor:

♫ Over!
Under! ♪
♪ Around and
through! ♬
♪ Sunny days chasin' the clouds away ... ♫

No wonder Ann being a music composer..LOL

[Ann1977]

No wonder Ann being a music composer..LOL

LOL!

It's not original. It's a medley --a novelty jingle plus the theme song of a famous "educational" TV show for kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqMz...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQn8K...eature=related

It's the only song about prepositions I know, and even then I had to throw in the theme music to round it out. There's a national shortage of songs all about prepositions.


But if anyone ever gets to be a Vowel Hero, I know a song about vowels we can honor him with!

And the names for the comparative forms of adjectives. I know a song about that too.