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Teoria: prepositions of time
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Prepositions of time
ON
IN
AT
What do you do on Monday mornings? What time do you finish work? When do you take a break? What do you do at night? What do you do on your birthday? When do you have dinner? What do you do in the afternoon?
When is your birthday? What time do you wake up? When do you have lunch? What do you do in the evening? When do you go to bed? What do you do on weekends? What time do you leave for work? When do you have breakfast?
Speaking practice!
ON
IN
AT
We use at, in and on to...
- express a relationship with time.
- indicate when an event occurs.
- introduce a time phrase in a sentence.
Prepositions of time
"at," "in," and "on" are all prepositions of time, which are used to specify when something happens.
- Specific hours of the day: At four o´clock - Periods of the year with proper names: At Christmas / At Easter - Weekends (UK english*): At the weekend - Mealtimes At lunchtime - Parts of the night (In with parts of the day*): At midnight
We use the preposition At with:
We use the preposition In with:
- Long time periods like months or years: In January / In 1927 / In this century - Periods of time before something happens: It will happen in two months - How long something takes: He did it in four hours - Parts of the day (At with parts of the night*): In the morning / In the evening
- Weekdays On Monday / On Friday - Weekends (USA english*) On Sundays / On the weekends - Days with proper names On Easter Sunday / On Christmas day - Particular dates On the 10th of April / On my birthday
We use the preposition On with:
Some examples
Hours: 8 a.m. / p.m. Parts of the night: Midnight Mealtimes: Dinner
Days: Monday Specific Days: My birthday Dates: April 3rd
Centuries: The 1900´s Decades: The 90´s Years: 2019 Months: March
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