at the park/in the park | WordReference Forums
2011年7月29日 · 1. "What are you doing?" " I am running in the park." This is far commoner, I cannot think of any situations where "in" would be incorrect. in =within. 2. "I see you have been fitness training, where are you doing your running?" " I am running at the park." (In BE, we also say, "I am running on the park." I don't know if American English does ...
run around the park in three rounds | WordReference Forums
2020年8月16日 · I am going to run three rounds of the park. "Rounds" might not be the best choice of noun, and "circuits" or "laps" might be better, or "run round the park three times". Reactions: entangledbank and Hermione Golightly
Go to run, Go running, Go for a run | WordReference Forums
2020年12月3日 · Brittany, NW France. English (Midlands UK) Dec 3, 2020. #2. To go for a run is idiomatic as a complete idea. The point of the exercise is simply to run for a particular time or distance. To go running is also idiomatic, meaning to go somewhere in order to take part in some running - alone or in a group. To go to run isn't very idiomatic.
Preposition: in/on/at the field/playground - WordReference Forums
2007年5月9日 · on: on (in contact with) the surface of the area defined as the playground. This is a less used alternative when speaking of children playing. But for organized sports on a field of play it's very common. The teams are assembled on the field and are ready to play.
park or have parked - WordReference Forums
2007年1月26日 · a) The police will take your car away if you park it here - General statement. If you park here you will be towed. Not specific to now or you: One's car will be removed if one parks it here. b) The police will take your car away if you have parked it here. 1) If you (meaning you, not one) happen to have parked here today, your car will be towed.
in the corridor or on the corridor? | WordReference Forums
2013年9月8日 · In the space between the two walls of the corridor = in the corridor. "Don't run in the corridor... He was standing in the corridor... Take care in that corridor, the floor is wet..." At a location behind one of the walls of the corridor = on the corridor. "The headmaster's office is on the upstairs corridor... He has a room on this corridor...
Run over vs. Ran over [by a car] - WordReference Forums
English - US. May 5, 2009. #5. The proper form is the past tense in the passive voice. This is formed by using what I call the "passive past participle" of "ran". We use it when we are talking about what that was done to someone, not what they did. "You were run over [by the car]." .
run, see spot run | WordReference Forums
2013年6月24日 · It would take patience for an adult to read such simple books, and if the person being interviewed wasn't an extremely young child at the time, it would take patience for him to be willing to learn from them. The sentence tells you to see [=look at] Spot, and to watch him [=Spot] run. It was under a picture in the book that shows Spot running ...
Run over/ overrun - WordReference Forums
British English. Feb 8, 2021. #2. There is no real difference between them. "Overrun" is probably the more common when only describing a single meeting going beyond its scheduled end point, not its effect on anything else. However "overrun" tends only to be used in the infinitive, the simple present tense and the simple past tense.
To take part TO or IN or AT - WordReference Forums
Oct 29, 2006. #2. . Take part in an event. I think our minds sometimes add parenthetically without actually saying, e.g. I took part [in the competitions] at our school field day. Ms Google gives us: 29,200,000 English pages for "take part in". 169,000 English pages for "take part at".