What is the difference
between “get in the bus” and “get on the bus”?
On the bus is the phrase that
illustrates how on doesn't always mean atop or attached to. Truth is, prepositions are very versatile words with
several usages, nuances, and idiomatic meanings. We get on
a bus for the same reason we get on
a train – because it's short for getting "on board" the bus.
You never get in the bus unless it's a small bus the size of a car; you
always get on the bus. But you get in a car, not the
other way around.
On the other hand in
some locales, there's a big difference between being on the bus, and in the bus, as is depicted here:
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