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AT \ IN the beginning… difference ?
What is the difference between using in and at when describing the beginning?
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It’s really fairly simple. When you say ‘at the beginning’ you are saying that something happened ‘during that time’ that is different from what happened ‘later’ … when you say ‘in the beginning’ you are saying that what happened then had a direct effect on what happened later. It’s ‘simple’ yet complicated, if you have trouble knowing ‘which’ it is … so most people ‘mess up’ and just say ‘in the beginning’ … which is ‘easier’ and grammatically correct, even if it’s not syntactically correct.
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In the beginning implies that you are discussing a range of time. At the beginning suggests that you are more focused on a range of items.
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You are not usually supposed to start a sentence with a preposition,so technically, neither should be used at the beginning of a sentence.
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AT is time and place specific whereas IN means during the period or in and around the place.
Example:
IN winter it is cold. AT 5 o’ clock it starts snowing.
I met him IN London AT No. 10 Downing Street.
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in the beginning……god created etc etc
at the beginning of this sentence is the word “at”.
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