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Learn simple time and place words in English. Practise “in”, “on”, and “at” with everyday examples, so your sentences sound natural and clear.
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None of the other answers makes much sense. (Why have such a pretty thing in a place where nobody can see it?)
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This clearly needs to be an expression of time rather than place. Answer 4 may have looked tempting, but proper English would say 'after the weekend', rather than 'behind' it.
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'Into' is right in both parts of this sentence.
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'On' in its primary sense means 'physically on top of' (as in 'on horseback' / 'on the river'), but for some reason English uses it to say 'on what day/date' something happens. Answer 3 ('for') is possible but unlikely; people might send you presents FOR your birthday, but a card ON it; perhaps because a present is a bigger thing that is sent 'for the sake of' the birthday, which has a wider sense to it than just the mathematical mark of one date on the calendar.
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We 'look at' things (such as pictures) in English; we also 'look for' them if we've lost them.
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We wouldn't say 'among' unless there were more than two men ('a house built among [several] trees'). It would be hard to stand 'against' more than one other person at a time, except perhaps in a political sense ('She stood against five men and won the election').
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We use 'with' to show that we are using a tool to do a job ('Cut it neatly with the scissors, instead of tearing it with your hands!'). All the other answers feel sensible, but only No.1 is completely right.
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'After' is what we use to mark the next item in a sequence. ('I before E except after C', as the English spelling rule goes ...)
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In English we are usually good (or bad, etc.) 'at' doing things, such as playing sports or instruments. Sometimes you will hear expressions such as 'He's very good with children' or 'She's not confident with computers', but in those cases we are talking more about the things themselves, as such, rather than what we do with them (although that's fairly obviously what is really meant).
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These two expressions are simple enough, but easily confused.
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