{"id":2290,"date":"2019-07-05T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2019-07-05T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:11:37","slug":"grammar-oh-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/grammar-oh-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar oh grammar_Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">One of the things that I find it difficult to teach is <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/more-example-of-preposition-for-location-and-place\/\">preposition<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/grammar-oh-grammar_part-1\/\">grammar<\/a>).\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 In Malay, the word &#8220;<strong>di<\/strong>&#8221; could be used to refer to <strong>location\/place<\/strong> in generic form.\u00a0 But in English, &#8220;<strong>at<\/strong>&#8221; can be used to refer to a location\/place and time.\u00a0 &#8220;<strong>At<\/strong>&#8221; is used when you are referring to a location\/place which is in a smaller scale as compared to a place like where you stay.\u00a0 &#8220;<strong>At<\/strong>&#8221; is also can be used to refer to time which is specific (hours).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">For &#8220;<strong>in<\/strong>&#8221; (which is not included in the diagram), it can be used to refer to generic place and more specific place.\u00a0 A more specific place like room, kitchen, store, veranda, toilet, classroom, office.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;See me <strong><em>in<\/em><\/strong> my office&#8221;, &#8220;Where is your mom?.\u00a0 She is <strong><em>in<\/em> <\/strong>the kitchen&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I found this on this <a href=\"https:\/\/busyteacher.org\/\">website\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/07\/prepositions-in-on-at.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2279 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/07\/prepositions-in-on-at-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/07\/prepositions-in-on-at-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/07\/prepositions-in-on-at-768x496.png 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/07\/prepositions-in-on-at.png 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">When I teach them preposition for place, I made some adjustment.\u00a0 I made my own handout.\u00a0 There are other examples of prepositions for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/more-example-of-preposition-for-location-and-place\/\">time<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/more-preposition_part-2\/\">movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I find it difficult to teach is preposition (grammar).\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 In Malay, the word &#8220;di&#8221; could be used to refer to location\/place in generic form.\u00a0 But in English, &#8220;at&#8221; can be used to refer to a location\/place and time.\u00a0 &#8220;At&#8221; is used when you are referring to a location\/place which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/grammar-oh-grammar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grammar oh grammar_Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}