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Rule "Collocation: on/in the afternoon"
This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.
| Description: | Collocation: on/in the afternoon |
| Message: | The usual preposition for "\3" is "in", not "on". Try it like this: <suggestion>in \2 \3</suggestion>. |
| Category: | Collocations |
| Link: | https://languagetool.org/insights/post/in-on-at-grammar/#using-%E2%80%9Cin%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Con%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cat%E2%80%9D-as-prepositions-of-time |
| Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect: |
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| ID: | ON_IN_THE_AFTERNOON [76] |
| Version: | 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-26 22:33:08 +0100) |