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Rule "Collocation: on/in the afternoon"
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| Description: | Collocation: on/in the afternoon |
| Message: | The usual preposition for "\3" is "in", not "on". Try it like this: in \2 \3. |
| 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 |
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| ID: | ON_IN_THE_AFTERNOON [76] |
| Version: | 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-25 22:33:07 +0200) |