AT, IN, and on are the most common PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE. We use at for the time of day: at five o'clock / at 11. / at midnight / at lunchtime / on my birthday on for days and dates: on Friday(s) / on Christmas Day(s)
AT, IN, and on are the most common PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE. We use at for the time of day: at five o'clock / at 11. / at midnight / at lunchtime / on my birthday on for days and dates: on Friday(s) / on Christmas Day(s)
AT, IN, and on are the most common PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE. We use at for the time of day: at five o'clock / at 11. / at midnight / at lunchtime / on my birthday on for days and dates: on Friday(s) / on Christmas Day(s)
AT, IN, and ON are the most common prepositions of place.
1. We use IN with streets, cities, districts, regions and countries: She lives in Roland Street / in Oxford / in England. They live in the south of France. We use AT with addresses: I live at 47, George Street.
2. We use IN with rooms: in the kitchen We use IN with other enclosed places: in an envelope / in my pocket We use ON with surfaces: on the floor / on the ceiling / on the pavement We use ON with FLOOR when we talk about part of a building: My flat is on the third floor. 3. We use at home, at work, at school, at university to talk about being in the place where we live, work, or study: I was at work / at home yesterday.
But we say in hospital, in prison, etc. to talk about being a patient or prisoner in the place: Jack is very ill and hes in hospital. PREPOSITIONS OF TIME (AT, IN, ON) We use: AT for the time of day: at five oclock / at 11.45 / at midnight / at lunchtime / at sunset etc.
ON for days and dates: on Friday(s) / on 16 May 1999 / on Christmas Day / on my birthday
IN for longer periods (e.g. months/years/seasons): in October / in 1988 / in the 18 th century / in the past in (the) winter / in the 1990s / in the Middle Ages / in (the) future We use AT in these expressions: at night at the weekend / at weekends at Christmas at the moment / at present at the same time We say: in the morning (s) but on Friday morning(s) in the afternoon(s) but on Sunday afternoon(s) in the evening(s) but on Monday evening(s) We say in a few minutes / in six months, etc: The train will be leaving in a few minutes. (= a few minutes from now) Shell be here in a moment. (= a moment from now) We also use IN to say how long it takes to do something: I learnt to drive in four weeks. (= it took me four weeks to learn)