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Interesting question. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (referenced at dictionary.com) has this to say : Some speakers of vernacular English varieties, particularly in isolated or mountainous regions of the southern United States, use phrases such as of a...

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"At that time" means "at a particular MOMENT" - say, for example, ten past three on Sunday afternoon. "In that time" means "within a given INTERVAL" - say, the interval while you were at work yesterday. Both of the above are adverb phrases, because the preposition converts the noun phrase "that...

"mountain" is a noun, however the wider sentence does not (cannot) treat this word in isolation, or as part of its OWN syntax. It's just like in math, when you say: 1+2*3, you have to parse (2*3) FIRST before you can parse the rest, which then becomes 1+6. If you parse things in the wrong order,...

It's a shame that your school, like too many others in this country, decided that the study of grammar was dispensable. It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don't know the technicalities of your own language's grammar. (Not everyone would agree with that...