7 MOST COMMON MISTAKES with prepositions in English

In this video, I share with you the most common errors English learners make with prepositions!

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[gabrielburzacchini]

I've learned more english watching your videos than in high school.

[varsha_kumawat]

1. Mistakes = discuss about something, consider about
Correct = discuss something, consider something, talk about, think about. (consider moving to uk) (discuss no preposition, consider no preposition but talk about, think about preposition)
2. Mistake = at morning
Correct = in the morning, in the evening, at night.
3. Mistake = i have never been in Russia
Correct = i have been to russia (location= I'm in italy)
4. Mistake = I'm marry with marina
Correct = I'm marry to marina, (she divorce from lucy)
5. On time = if something happens according to schedule
In time = if something happened before event.
6. Mistake= at Friday, after week
Correct = on Friday, in a week, next month, in summer, in September, on July 1st, in a day, on the phone. We're going to see a movie on Friday.. ✌✌✌🙂

[jonadabtheunsightly]

"In time" actually implies that something was able to be achieved, or some consequence avoided, because of the timing. If you arrived at the meeting "on time", that means you arrived before the meeting was scheduled to start; but if you arrived at the meeting in time to give your presentation, that means might not have been there when the meeting started, but at least you arrived before they had to skip your presentation. There's also "just in time", which means that if you'd been any later, you wouldn't have been in time to accomplish the thing; any later would've been too late.

Also, while we say "in the morning", we also say "at 7 o'clock in the morning" or, more succinctly, "at 7am". See also "at oh dark thirty", which means really early in the morning when you would've preferred to still be in bed.


There are contexts in which we say "after a week", but the meaning is subtly different from "in a week". For example, I taught myself Perl by reading the camel book, and after a week I was able to write a useful program that solve a practical real-world problem. This means that a week of study was enough for me to be able to do that. (Admittedly, I'd had previous experience with other programming languages.) "In a week" just notes the passing of a week's worth of time; "after a week" introduces some kind of consequence or benefit or outcome of whatever activity took place during that week.

[palmsiberia]

in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon, at night, I have never been to, I am in, married to, divorced from, in time something happened in advance, on time accord to schedule, consider no preposition, discuss no preposition, on friday, in summer, in september, on july first, next month, in a week, in a day, on the phone

[KarlaRodriguez-mxod]

This is great! Thanks Marina. This is great for people that doesn't have conversations with native speakers. I do this mistakes all the time and I didn't even know about it. Thanks a lot!

[paulpopaul]

thanks Marina for sharing your knowledge and good vibes !!

[sinadjavadi]

Marina, have you seen your old videos from 2 or 3 years ago? I was just going through them and it's funny and amazing when I get to see how far you've come and made great progress during these years, I just hope that I can speak fluently and of course with American accent soon, just like you do
I'm learning from you and your experiences every day and I'm trying to learn Spanish and Russian too
Keep it going, girl, Love you

[me-zstr]

You're so original in front of the camera. I love that so much!

[learningenglishtogether]

Top-notch video ! Thank you very much, Marina 💗
P.S. By the way, there's one common mistake that English language learners make. There're phrases " at the end " and " in the end " ." In the end" means eventually, when something's over . And we use "at the end" when we talk about actual position of an object . For instance :
- We all made it up in the end .
- There's a comma at the end of a sentence .
Hope it'll be useful for somebody ☺🙆🙆

[DanielGarcia-duep]

Finally someone made this kind of video. Thank you so much. Hope you make more videos like this one.

[samarehuda]

Thanks Marina. I was a bit confused with ' after a week' and 'in a week'. Right now I am clear with it.

[albertobozzetto]

Marina, I never saw carefully your stunning freckles! so nice! Perhaps I was too much busy with the subtitles...

[kholoods.f]

I really love her explanation and personality ❤️💕❤️💕❤️

[andyalice]

Thank you.
I kind of get the motivation and energy also by matching your episodes.

[ciaraanderson]

Awesome Marina! 🙏 You're an inspiration to me as an English teacher! I've definitely heard "married with" a lot lol

[Itsmeleanher]

I love how u teach Lingua, you’re so awesome ❤️

[sarahmaytejerero]

Finally I got it in your video! It’s very useful.

[girlmoon]

Thank you 🙏🏻 I really committed these mistakes and I’m working to avoid it later

[rohanmore]

Really Marina you've changed my way of learning English and was very helful... Thank you so much

[brunoroque]

Say “Hi” to Brazil!!! I'm Brazilian and I usually watch your videos to improve my listening cause this is a hard topic till achieving the totally fluency in English!