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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the several possibilities available for a particular meaning, and which one of them would be the most appropriate.
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"At the corner of the bar" or "In the corner of the bar"?
You wouldn't sit in a wooden rectangle would you? You might sit in an establishment. So you would sit at the bar. To answer your question the prepositional phrase you are looking for is "to sit at …
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Why is "with the telescope" correct?
The syntax of the sentence follows the Subject+Verb+Object model.
The subject of the sentence is scientists. The verb can is a modal auxiliary verb, and photograph is the main verb.
What can be …
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