correct the sentence 'the dinner is between 6pm to 10 pm '
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Explanation:
The use of the preposition at specifies a certain point in time. Since a meal cannot be eaten in/over/during a point of time, the most common way to interpret your sentence
Last night at 9 PM, I ate dinner
is that you are telling at what point in time that dinner started.
I cannot stress the following enough:
It would be rare to non-existent for a native speaker to utter your sentence and refer to 9 PM as the stopping point.
We often say sentences like yours (using at a specific time) to refer to the starting time of a meal or other event. This is probably so that other people know what time to arrive at the meal or event.
This includes both the past and non-past. Examples with at in addition to your sentence include
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