What’s the difference?

We were jogging in the park
We were jogging at the park

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haelin

24 Dec 2019

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English (US)
Turkish

“in” is usually used to mean that the person/ the thing you refer to is inside the structure. For example; If you’re in the house, you are inside the house. But if you’re at home you can either be inside or outside your garden, your parking lot etc.
However being ‘in’ doesn’t only mean that the place has to be covered, such as gardens and parks.
You could either use being ‘in’ or ‘at’ parks. It’d give the same meaning. The prepositions in and at can have many different functions. Sometimes there is no logical reason related to why we use one preposition and not another. Native speakers can also use ‘at’ instead of ‘in’ when they are inside a structure. So it doesn’t really matter.

Long story short; when it’s used for uncovered places, we can consider “in” and “at” as the same thing.

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haelin

24 Dec 2019

English (US)
Turkish

“in” is usually used to mean that the person/ the thing you refer to is inside the structure. For example; If you’re in the house, you are inside the house. But if you’re at home you can either be inside or outside your garden, your parking lot etc.
However being ‘in’ doesn’t only mean that the place has to be covered, such as gardens and parks.
You could either use being ‘in’ or ‘at’ parks. It’d give the same meaning. The prepositions in and at can have many different functions. Sometimes there is no logical reason related to why we use one preposition and not another. Native speakers can also use ‘at’ instead of ‘in’ when they are inside a structure. So it doesn’t really matter.

Long story short; when it’s used for uncovered places, we can consider “in” and “at” as the same thing.

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24 Dec 2019

Spanish (Mexico)

@helinyagmurx Got it. Thank you so much for your great explanation. I really appreciate your time. It was really clear and easy to understand. I wish I could help you with something too but you aren’t learning Spanish so good luck with learning Korean and German. It must be really hard to learn those languages. Have a good nice.

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