Preposition

Explanations Example
of time
 days  Many shops don't
 weekend (American English) open on Sundays.
on  What did you do on the
weekend?

 months / seasons / year  I visited

 morning / evening / Italy in July, in spring, in 1994
afternoon  In the evenings, I like to
in  period of time relax.
 This is the first cigarette I've
had in three years.

 night  It gets cold at night.

 weekend (British English)
 used to show an exact or a
at
particular time:
 What did you do at the
weekend?
 There's a meeting at 2.30 this
afternoon / at lunch time.

 from a particular time in  England have not won the

the past until a later time, World Cup in
since
or until now football since1966

 used to show an amount of  I'm just going to bed for an

for time. hour or so.

 back in the past; back in  The dinosaurs died out 65

ago time from the present: million years ago.

 at or during a time earlier  She's always up before dawn.

before than

 used when saying the time,  It's twenty to six.

to mean before the stated
to
hour

 telling the time  five past ten

past

 until a particular time,  It's only two weeks to

marking end of a period of Christmas.
to
time

 used to show the time when  The museum is

something starts open from 9.30 to 6.00
from
Tuesday to Sunday.

 up to (the time that)  We waited till / until half

till / until past six for you.