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And welcome to another English lesson.

We're talking about special grammar rule in the English language on This is something you'll see come up a lot.

And it's something that confuses a lot off my Skype students.

So today we're talking about propositions, off transport, propositions of transport.

So, for example, yesterday I traveled to my parents house to visit my parents.

I traveled by car.

I got in my car because I didn't want to get on the bus.

Now, does that confuse you?

Why did I use in for some words on, for other words on by?

Well, let me explain for you right now and we'll see if we can get to the bottom of it.

OK, by Thistle is a general means of transport.

If I go to school, I would go to school by bus, by car, by foot, by taxi, by airplane, by Laurie by anything.

That's how I get to where I'm going.

I get there by something.

So it's a general proposition.

That's what by is So what's the difference between in on on What if I'm in something?

That's something I get inside and usually there's no space toe walk around to move around.

I just get inside inside of it.

Now I know you can get inside a bus, but really we say that we get on a bus on.

I'll explain that later on.

But now I'm just going to talk about in so in.

I'm in a car.

I'm in a van.

I'm in a lorry.

I'm in a taxi.

I'm in an ambulance.

Anything that is a small space that I can sit down in now when I'm on something, I'm usually on a bus on a train, on a bicycle, on a airplane, on a train on a horse.

So this even counts for animals.

I would be on a horse.

Why do I get on a bike?

Because I can't get inside the bike.

I can't get inside of it.

I can only get on it now.

Remember if I said on for a car or for Anam violence, I was on an ambulance.

That would be wrong because that would mean that your stood or sitting on the roof, so that would probably not be very safe, and I wouldn't recommend it.

So we're in a car, but we're on a bike because we get on the seat off the bike and ride the bike.

We can't get inside a bike on.

The same goes for motorcycles.

I'm on a motorcycle.

I can't get inside a motorcycle.

I can't get inside.

Ah, horse or a camel.

I would be riding on the horse or on the camel, but I also get on a bus.

I get on a coach.

I get on a train on a ship or on a plane, and this is because not only can we get inside of these vehicles, but we can also move around.

I can walk on a plane, I can walk on a train.

I can walk on a coach or a bus, so we use on for anything that we can get inside on walk around.

We only use in when it's something that we get inside.

But we can't really walk around, so we get in the car.

But we get on the plane because we can walk around on the plane.

Their space.

It's bigger on their space.

So I hope you found this video useful.

It was just a quick one for you today.

Please expect more videos throughout this year of 2000 and 17.

I hope you had a really good new year.

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