📖 Prepositions Time and Place
#grammar_time

AT – IN – ON

❗️ AT for a precise time:

➡️at 3 o’clock
➡️at 10.30am
➡️at noon
➡️at dinnertime
➡️at bedtime
➡️at sunrise
➡️at sunset
➡️at the moment on New Year’s Eve…

➡️Examples:
— I have a meeting at 9am.
— The shop closes at midnight.
— Jane went home at lunchtime…

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❗️ IN for months, years, centuries and long periods:

➡️in May on Sunday
➡️in summer
➡️in the summer
➡️in 1990
➡️in the 1990s
➡️in the next century
➡️in the Ice Age
➡️in the past/future…

➡️Examples:
— In England, it often snows in December.
— Do you think we will go to Jupiter in the future?
— There should be a lot of progress in the next century…

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❗️ ON days and dates:

➡️on 25 Dec. 2010
➡️on Christmas Day
➡️on Independence Day
➡️on my birthday
➡️on Tuesdays
➡️on 6 March…

➡️Examples:
— Do you work on Mondays?
— Her birthday is on 20 November.
— Where will you be on New Year’s Day?

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❗️NOTE:
When we say last, next, every, this we do not use AT, IN, ON.

— I went to London last June. (not “in last June”)
— He’s coming back next Tuesday. (not “on next Tuesday”)
— I go home every Easter. (not “at every Easter”)
— We’ll call you this evening. (not “in this evening”)

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