Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks:
I intend to visit my parents __________ this weekend.
Topic: Prepositions of time
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Answer
(a) during.
DURING is used for a PERIOD of time within which something happens at no specified moment. The visit may fall at any point across the weekend, so "during this weekend" is correct.
The standard rules for prepositions of time: AT for a precise point — at 5 o’clock, at noon, at night ON for a day or date — on Monday, on 5 March IN for a longer period — in May, in 2022, in the morning DURING for a stretch of time in which something occurs
Note that "on the weekend" (American) and "at the weekend" (British) are both idiomatic in ordinary use; what makes DURING the expected answer here is the sense of some unspecified moment within the weekend.
during.