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Important Days (Prepositions of Time)

By smartfm 8 hours 30 minutes ago

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This lesson starts the new topic for the month, which is ‘My Free Time’.  We will focus on prepositions of time to talk about important days.  In particular, we will cover ‘in’, ‘at’, ‘on’, ‘for’, and ‘-‘ prepositions. Prepositions are something that most students continue to struggle and make mistakes in.  There three most confusing ones are ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’.  We’ll also look at time phrases that don’t need any prepositions.

In:    This is used for long periods of time (months, years, centuries, etc)
Months: February, March etc
Years:  1975, 2004 etc
Month and year combination: Agust 1970, December 2000 etc
Seasons: spring, summer etc
Part of the day: the morning, the afternoon, the evening
Duration: minute, two weeks, hours, years

On:     This is used for days and dates.
Days of the week: Monday, Saturday, etc
Complete dates: January 5, 2005
Anything referring to a specific day/days: the my birthday, my anniversary,
My first day at school, Easter Sunday, New Year’s Day)
A special part of a day: Monday morning, the morning of September 11th

At:    This is used for a more precise time.
Time: six o’clock, half past three
Celebrations-when referring to the holiday and not the day it self: Christmas, Easter    Specific part of the day (noon, night, midnight, breakfast, lunch, sunrise
fixed phrases: at the same time, at the moment, at once etc

There are time phrases that don’t require prepositions.
When we say last, next, every, or this, we don’t use any prepositions.

For Example:

I went home last May.
She’s leaving next Saturday.
I go home every Christmas.
We’ll be back this afternoon.(Smart Up Your Live)