Sentence pattern · Band 1
在: being somewhere
主语 + 在 + 地方
在 answers where, and it does the whole job alone: dad is at home, the book is on the table, they are eating at a restaurant. No am or is shows up, because 在 already means is at. To hunt for a missing thing, name the thing and ask 在哪儿 after it: where is it, one clean sentence.
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在 already means is at; 是 only links noun to noun and has no place in a where sentence.
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What does 在：在哪儿 mean?
在 answers where, and it does the whole job alone: dad is at home, the book is on the table, they are eating at a restaurant. No am or is shows up, because 在 already means is at. To hunt for a missing thing, name the thing and ask 在哪儿 after it: where is it, one clean sentence.
How do you build it?
主语 + 在 + 地方
What is the most common mistake?
我爸爸是在家。 → 我爸爸在家。
在 already means is at; 是 only links noun to noun and has no place in a where sentence.
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