Three Steps to a Clear Agreement
Once the meeting itself has been suggested, you need to agree on two details: where and when. It is useful to proceed in three steps: ask about the missing detail, suggest a specific option, and check whether it suits the other person.
You do not always need all three steps at once. If the place is already known, ask only about the time; if the other person has named a time, you can confirm it or suggest another one.
Where shall we meet?
Where shall we meet?
The question asks for a place when the meeting itself is already being discussed.
Is 7 o'clock OK for you?
Does seven o'clock work for you?
The speaker is not simply naming a time but checking whether it is convenient for the other person.
How to Ask About a Detail
Where shall we meet? asks about the place, while When shall we meet? asks generally about the time. After shall we, we use the base form of the verb without to: shall we meet, not shall we to meet.
Other natural questions are also possible in informal conversation, for example Where do you want to meet? or What time works for you? In this lesson, we mainly practise the short shall we patterns and questions about convenience.
Where/When + shall we + meet?
When shall we meet?
When shall we meet?
When leaves both the day and the time open.
What time suits you?
What time works for you?
The question directly asks the other person to name a convenient time.
How to Suggest a Specific Option
Let's meet … includes both the speaker and the other person and suggests a shared action. After let's, we use the verb without to: Let's meet, Let's start, Let's go.
You can combine the place, time, and day in one sentence. A natural order is often: place → time → day, but the meaning is more important than following a mechanical formula.
Let's meet + place + at + time + on + day or date.
Let's meet at the cafe at 3 PM on Saturday.
Let's meet at the cafe at 3 PM on Saturday.
One utterance specifies the place, exact time, and day.
Let's meet in the park near the lake.
Let's meet in the park near the lake.
In highlights being inside the larger area of the park; near specifies a landmark.
How to Check Whether an Option Works
Is … OK for you? places a specific detail after is: Is Friday OK for you? Is the station OK for you? The preposition for shows whose convenience is being checked.
This question leaves room for a response. If the option does not work, it is appropriate to decline briefly and immediately suggest another time or place.
Is + time or place + OK for you?
Is Friday afternoon OK for you?
Does Friday afternoon work for you?
The whole time phrase is the detail being checked.
The library is easier for me. Is that OK for you?
The library is more convenient for me. Is that OK for you?
That refers to the place just suggested.
Prepositions of Time and Place
For an exact time, we usually use at: at 6 o'clock, at noon. For a day or date, we use on: on Monday, on 12 May. For a part of the day, a month, or a year, we use in: in the morning, in June, in 2027. We usually do not need a preposition before next Monday, tomorrow, or this evening.
For place, at often presents a point or a place of activity: at the entrance, at the station. In shows a space inside a larger area: in the park, in the cafe. We use on for a surface or line, including on Main Street. The choice of a preposition of place depends on how the speaker views the place.
at 6:00 · on Tuesday · in the morning · at the entrance · in the park · on Main Street
Let's meet at the station at 8 o'clock on Tuesday.
Let's meet at the station at 8 o'clock on Tuesday.
At identifies the station as the meeting point and introduces the exact time; on introduces the day.
Can we meet in the morning?
Can we meet in the morning?
We use in with parts of the day.
How to Maintain the Dialogue and Finalize the Arrangement
An arrangement is an exchange of utterances, not one isolated formula. Notice which detail is already known, and do not ask for it again. If the time does not work, name an alternative and check it again.
The final utterance should show shared understanding: Great, see you at six at the station or Perfect — Friday at the library. This way, both people understand the time and place in the same way.
A: Is 2 o'clock OK for you? B: I'm busy then. How about 3?
A: Does two o'clock work for you? B: I'm busy then. How about three?
The refusal is accompanied by a specific alternative.
Great. See you at the entrance at six.
Great. See you at the entrance at six.
The final utterance repeats both agreed details.
Common mistakes
Incorrect:Where shall we to meet?
Correct:Where shall we meet?
After the modal shall, we need the base form meet without to.
Incorrect:Let's to meet at the cafe.
Correct:Let's meet at the cafe.
After let's, we use the base form of the verb without to.
Incorrect:Is 7 o'clock OK to you?
Correct:Is 7 o'clock OK for you?
The pattern for checking convenience requires the preposition for.
Incorrect:Let's meet at Saturday.
Correct:Let's meet on Saturday.
We use on with days of the week, not at.
Incorrect:Let's meet on 3 PM.
Correct:Let's meet at 3 PM.
We use at with an exact clock time.