Do these sentences make sense?
1. There is a clock at one end of the houses.
2. There is a clock at the end of the houses.
3. There is a clock at one end of the house.
4. There is a clock at the end of the house.
5. Mark a dot at one end of upper right on this paper.
6. Mark a dot at the end of upper right on this paper.
7. Mark a dot at one end of the upper right of this paper.
8. Mark a dot at the end of the upper right on this paper.
9. Mark a dot in the upper right of this paper.
10. Mark a dot in the upper right corner of this paper.
Comments
1 & 2: These only make sense if you have a lot of houses in a line. Then at the end of the line there's an outside clock. Kind of strange, but they make sense in that one situation.
3--there's a house that's very long and thin. Then you can say #3.
4--Not good. A house doesn't have "the end"
5-8--Nope. They just don't make sense. The upper right of a paper doesn't have an "end."
9 & 10--OK. They mean the same. With #9, the word "corner" is understood, but it's been deleted.
3 and 10 do.
1. No
2. No
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Technically, no
6. Technically, no
7. Yes, grammatically, but no if you say "one end" but specify the corner.
8. Yes (a little awkward and strange)
9. Yes (but somewhat awkward)
10. Yes
3, 4, 9, and 10 make sense.