Prepositions time and place

Prepositions of time and place

Prepositions of time

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• Holidays ending in “day” (on Christmas day)

• Days (on Monday, on my birthday)
• Dates (On 17th July 2020)

• Holidays NOT ending in “day” (at Easter)
• Time (at 7:00 p.m., *at night)
• At the weekend (but ON is ok too)

• Parts of the day (in the morning)
• Months (in July)
• Years (in 2022)
• Decades and centuries (in the 90s, in the 21st century)

• Seasons (in summer)

Prepositions of place

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• Streets and avenues (on the Fifth Avenue)
• Islands/coast (on Tenerife/on the coast)
• Means of transport where you can stand up (on a plane/train/bus/boat/metro)
• Surfaces (on the floor)
• Communications (on the phone/internet)

• Neighborhoods (in Triana, in the suburbs)
• Cities (in Cádiz)
• Countries (in Spain)
• Enclosed space (in a car/box/taxi)
• Cardinal points (in the south/north/east/west

• Addresses (at 10 Downing Street )
• Specific locations (at work, at home, at the corner)

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