Learn English – the difference between the two sentences

grammarprepositions

  1. Students in Korea start dating around their 14th birthday.

  2. Students in Korea start dating at around their 14th birthday.

What is the difference between the two sentences?

Is there any problem in the sentence above? (in sentence No 1, No 2)
Ant, what is the meaning of 'at' in the sentence no. 2?

Best Answer

I don't think there's much difference between these two sentences.

Sometimes at around is used when around by itself would be ambiguous -- it could be interpreted as referring to an approximate time/place or to something surrounding something else. But there's no such ambiguity here, so either form is understanable.

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