Someone wrote:
At one point a funny story happened to me.
It continues:
I'm studying English in the private English language school called SPEAK UP. Several days ago one teacher invited the students to a pub quiz, right. When I got there, they had already settled down in the pub….
I changed the first sentence to:
Some time ago/ once a funny story happened to me.
I think "At one point" is used to begin a story like :
At one point we stopped at a gas station….
Before describing an event, but not a good choice for the sentence above. Right?
In general, what's its usage?
Beside I think the right in the continuation of the story doesn't sound good and is extra. Right?
Best Answer
The implication of at one point is "at one point in time", that is, at one point in a series of points in space-time.
Thus, to begin a statement with at one point would be a non-sequitur. There would have been no explicit setting of context to explain it, as in the mountain road example above, and so it could confuse the listener or reader. However, a long-standing convention of storytelling is that a storyteller has the freedom to begin a story in medias res. There, the non-sequitur is a narrative device not a logical shortcoming.