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Bookmark or Share- grammar - " at the weekend" vs "at weekends" - English Language & Usage ..."At weekends" is not really what one could call "more appropriate", as it does mean the same thing, but it is used more often than "at the weekend": ngram. Without changing the meaning you can use "on" instead of "at" and you find that "on weekends" is much more often used than any other in AmE: ngram. This is not so in BrE: ngram
- "At/on (the) weekend (s)" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhereas "at 9 o'clock" implies starting at 9, but continuing for an flexible length of time; similarly "at Christmas" implies starting at some point during the Christmas period, not necessarily "on Christmas Day"; "at the weekend" implies some point during the weekend which could either be Saturday or Sunday or both.
- at the weekend, on the weekend or in the weekend? [closed]I will do my work over the weekend. I will do my work during the weekend. Neither "in the weekend" nor "at the weekend" sound correct. "On the weekend" sounds OK, more so if you're talking about multiple weekends. I do my work on weekends.
- Difference between "at this weekend" and "this weekend"When we use time adverbs with 'this' /this week, this year, this month, etc./, no preposition is necessary. You can express the period 'on Saturday and Sunday' with 'at the weekend' /British English/ or 'on the weekend /American English/.
- word choice - "On the weekend" or "during the weekend" - English ...whereas Britons favour "at the weekend" Both nations also use over the weekend (for Americans, this is actually the most common form; for Brits, it's a close second). But for Brits, during the weekend is the least favoured of these top four prepositions (it's second-to-bottom for Americans, who really don't like at the weekend).
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