in? at?
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theeexcellence
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Hi,
Can I say: 'He is in the airport' instead of 'he is at the airport'?
I believe that the preposition "in" cannot be used with "airport" alone except when we have another noun (usually a building in an airport) after it.
Example:
He is waiting for me at the airport. (Here "the" means both the speaker and the listener know which airport.)
He is waiting for me in the airport lounge.
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bieasy
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But if I want to specify that he is inside the airport, as opposed to out of the airport?
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Usually we say "at the airport" to say that, unless we want to be specific about exactly where we are as in theeexellence's example.
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