northpath
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- Nov 4, 2013
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Russian Federation
These sentences do not confuse me:
We meet every Friday at the bar ‘Drunken Ouster’
I spend a lovely evening at the theater.
It’s clear that the matter concerns events happening INSIDE the building.
These sentences do not confuse me too:
I saw a fight outside the club.
The taxi came to a stop outside our house.
There was a huge crowd outside the airport waiting for him.
It’s clear that the matter concerns events happening OUDSIDE the building.
But when I asked the Microsoft Word to translate a sentence from my native language into English, I got the same preposition ‘at’ in the sentence:
We agreed to meet at the pub next Wednesday at 5.
regardless of events INSIDE or OUTSIDE the building.
Isn’t it more correct to use the preposition ‘at’ if we agreed to meet INSIDE the building:
We agreed to meet at the pub in the following Wednesday at 5 pm.
And preposition ‘outside’ if we agreed to meet OUTSIDE the building
We agreed to meet outside the pub next Wednesday at 5pm.
Otherwise these's an ambiguity about where we agreed to meet.
We meet every Friday at the bar ‘Drunken Ouster’
I spend a lovely evening at the theater.
It’s clear that the matter concerns events happening INSIDE the building.
These sentences do not confuse me too:
I saw a fight outside the club.
The taxi came to a stop outside our house.
There was a huge crowd outside the airport waiting for him.
It’s clear that the matter concerns events happening OUDSIDE the building.
But when I asked the Microsoft Word to translate a sentence from my native language into English, I got the same preposition ‘at’ in the sentence:
We agreed to meet at the pub next Wednesday at 5.
regardless of events INSIDE or OUTSIDE the building.
Isn’t it more correct to use the preposition ‘at’ if we agreed to meet INSIDE the building:
We agreed to meet at the pub in the following Wednesday at 5 pm.
And preposition ‘outside’ if we agreed to meet OUTSIDE the building
We agreed to meet outside the pub next Wednesday at 5pm.
Otherwise these's an ambiguity about where we agreed to meet.
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