I am learning British English, so I’d also like to know how a British person would express the same idea. Your first example, how it works, is a free relative clause which cannot be used as a question. You’re saying there’s a room or building labeled “kindergarten” and that’s where you work. If it’s part of a school or greater institution, this is proper to say. Both of those are poor examples for use of the chosen prepositions. Businesses sometimes aren’t just a building or room in a building, they have a campus, etc.

  • So then they can be elevated to “place status” and therefore you use at.
  • Both of those are poor examples for use of the chosen prepositions.
  • You’re saying there’s a room or building labeled “kindergarten” and that’s where you work.
  • Here, ‘how it works’ is correct because it isn’t a direct part of the question being asked.
  • Your first example, how it works, is a free relative clause which cannot be used as a question.

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So then they can https://p1nup.in/ be elevated to “place status” and therefore you use at. I would like to know what usually follows after each proposition in sentences with the word “work”.

  • If it’s part of a school or greater institution, this is proper to say.
  • So then they can be elevated to “place status” and therefore you use at.
  • Here, ‘how it works’ is correct because it isn’t a direct part of the question being asked.
  • You’re saying there’s a room or building labeled “kindergarten” and that’s where you work.
  • I am learning British English, so I’d also like to know how a British person would express the same idea.

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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Here, ‘how it works’ is correct because it isn’t a direct part of the question being asked. The question asked is, “Will you tell me _?” ‘How it works’ is just that part of the sentence which goes into the blank, as an assertive phrase. I heard an American colleague say “This is a template you can work off of”. The two prepositions sounded a bit odd to me one after the other, but I don’t know if that is standard or “formal” English.