Sentence improvement — Correct the preposition with ‘‘arrive’’ in ‘‘Mr. Smith arrived at India in June last year.’’ to follow standard travel-grammar usage for countries and large places.

Given dataMr. Smith arrived at India in June last year.

Concept/ApproachWe use ‘‘arrive in’’ with large areas (countries, big cities) and ‘‘arrive at’’ with smaller points (airports, stations, buildings). Therefore, with the country name ‘‘India’’, the correct preposition is ‘‘in’’.

Option analysisto — ‘‘arrived to’’ is incorrect.by — Indicates agency/means; wrong here.in — Correct: ‘‘arrived in India’’.No improvement — Leaves the error ‘‘at India’’.

Common pitfallsOvergeneralizing ‘‘at’’ for all destinations; remember the size rule (in = countries/cities, at = points/addresses).

Final Answerin