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🔰At School /In School🔰

✍🏻”At school" has the following  meanings:

1.Attending school

👉🏻Examples:- John is not at school today.

👉🏻She went out to do her shopping while the children were at school.

👉🏻Is Susan still at school, or has she left?

👉🏻An increasing number of pupils are staying at school until they are eighteen.

👉🏻We've got two children at school, and one at unvirstiy.

2. On the school premises

Examples:- I was at school until almost half past five yesterday.

👉🏻He couldn't do his homework, as he found he had left his text-book at school.

3. In one's lessons or school work

👉🏻Examples:- A good deal of what  we learn at school we forget in afterlife.

👉🏻Andrew is getting on very well at school.

✍🏻”In school" has the following meanings:

1. In the school building

👉🏻Example:- Pupils are not allowed in  school after 8.30 a.m.

2. In lesson's time

👉🏻Example:- We did the first part of the exercise in school, and the rest for homework.

3. In American English, in school is used for attending a school or university.

👉🏻Example:- Are your sons still in school?

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