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IN ON AT – Important Prepositions of TIME and PLACE in English

IN ON AT – Important Prepositions of TIME and PLACE in English

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Prepositions IN ON AT! In this lesson, you will learn prepositions of TIME and PLACE with IN, ON, AT in English.

IN ON AT – Prepositions of TIME

How to Use prepositions of Time IN – ON – AT Correctly!

AT

Hours:

  • at 9 am
  • at 8 o’clock
  • at 6 pm

Parts of the day:

  • at night
  • at noon/ midday
  • at midnight
  • at bedtime
  • at lunch time
  • at dinner time
  • at dinner
  • at lunch
  • at sunrise/ sunset
  • at dawn

Holidays without “day”:

  • at Easter
  • at Christmas
  • at New Years

At + time:

  • at present
  • at the weekend (U.K)
  • at breakfast
  • at the moment
  • at that moment
  • at the same time
  • at that time

IN

Parts of the day:

  • in the morning
  • in the afternoon
  • in the evening

Months:

  • in October
  • in June
  • in December

Seasons:

  • in (the) spring
  • in (the) summer
  • in (the) fall/ autumn
  • in (the) winter

Years:

  • in 1980
  • in 1968

Decades:

  • in the 1900s
  • in the seventies

Centuries:

  • in the 17th century
  • in the 20st century

Weeks:

  • in a week
  • in 2 weeks

Holidays:

  • in the Easter holiday
  • in the Christmas holiday

Period of time:

  • in the past
  • in the next century
  • in the future
  • in the 10 years time
  • in the middle ages
  • in a few minutes
  • in a moment
  • in an hour
  • in 3 hours
  • in six months
  • in a year

ON

Days:

  • On Monday
  • On Tuesday
  • On Saturday

Dates:

  • on June 3rd
  • on 1st October 2013
  • on the 10th
  • on the first day
  • on the last day

Holidays with ‘day’:

  • on New Year’s day
  • on Christmas day
  • on Easter day

Specific days:

  • on my birthday
  • on holiday
  • on my wedding day
  • on that day

Days + Parts of day:

  • on Saturday morning(s)
  • on Sunday afternoon(s)
  • on Tuesday evening(s)

On + time:

  • on the weekend (U.S.)
  • on weekdays
  • on time
  • on a winter evening
  • on a warm day
  • on my break

Thibaut

Saturday 1st of April 2023

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abbas alwsaibee

Wednesday 30th of March 2022

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Elie

Monday 19th of April 2021

very detailed and useful, thanks a lot

Mehrdad

Saturday 28th of November 2020

very good and complete

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Thursday 19th of November 2020

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