English sentence problem 一問

第一和第二句話沒有錯。"city" 不是專有名詞，所以 "at the city" 是正確的。或者，用 "arrived in Apply City"。第三句是不合邏輯的，句子的主語應該是"Tom"。

改為:

Tom went to Apple City yesterday. Arriving at 11:30 a.m., he saw tall modern buildings around the city.

2014-05-26 00:18:39 補充：
也可以說: he saw tall modern buildings all over the city

2014-05-26 02:13:53 補充：
Of course, "arrived in the city" is also correct and more commonly used. However, when the city "Apply City" (or "New York") has been mentioned in the first sentence, you may focus the following "city" to mean the "city centre" where there is a border and say "arrived at the city".

2014-05-26 02:22:31 補充：
Anyway, it'd better to omit "arrived in the city" as per my modified sentence and put "the city" at the very end of the sentence.

"arriving in the city" (correct)
"arriving at the station" (correct)
"arriving on the scene" (correct)

"arriving at the city" (incorrect)

Tom went to Apple City yesterday. He arrived in the city at 11:30 am. On arrival he saw tall modern buildings around.

We normally use:~
arrive at a building, station, shop …etc
arrive in a city, country e.g. arrived in London, arrived in Canada
arrive on the scene

2014-05-26 01:16:00 補充：
“Twenty or thirty years ago business people were more likely to arrive IN a city by car,” ~ from "Economist"

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21597904-cities-used-think-modern-art-could-save-them-now-its-railway-stations-rail-ambition

2014-05-26 01:19:44 補充：
"Evacuees arrive IN city" ~
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/content/news/local/2014/05/12/evacuees-arrive-city

"Apollo to arrive IN city today" ~
http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/Local/2014-04-30/article-3706410/Apollo-to-arrive-in-city-today/1

2014-05-26 01:22:04 補充：
"India Cricket team to arrive IN the city on June 13" ~ from
http://thedailynewnation.com/news/12565/india-cricket-team-to-arrive-in-the-city-on-june-13.html

2014-05-26 07:12:42 補充：
我想 the city 正常解釋不是解 "市中心"
另外解 the city = the govenment of a city
the City = 倫敦金融區, 但 city 一定大草
真是要發問者自己才知. the city 是什麼
這發問者問完後, 造個 new name, 又再問類似問題
有回答者, 回答是給其他人看
Karen 檔案建立：2014-05-25
如果這 Karen 真是第一次問, I apologize in advance.

Tom went to Apple City yesterday. He arrived at the city at 11:30am.
At the time of arriving at the city, there were modern buildings which were tall in the city.
在字面上, 你的寫法好chinese-english, 用中文的說法用英文寫是有問題。

第一二句没有問題, 第三句我估你的意思應是 : 當我到達時, 有好多現代化的大廈, 這些大廈都很高。

我會這樣寫, 合英文的寫法 :
When we arrived, we could see tall modern buildings around.