THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS

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• Large areas (in country, city/town, regency, subdistrict)
• Years (in 2020, 1945)
• Centuries (in the 19th century)
• Decades (in 90’s)
• Months (in July, December)
• Weeks (in the 2nd week of February)
• Periods of time (in the future, in the past)
• Seasons/weathers (in spring, summer, winter, rainy, autumn)
• Rooms (in the living room, in the office, in the classroom)
• Parts of the day (in the morning/in the afternoon/in the evening)
• Transportations which don’t have large space (in a taxi, a car, a helicopter)
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• Days (on Wednesday, Saturday night, Sunday morning)
• Dates (on February 23rd 2020, March 1st)
• Floors (on the 40th floor)
• Street/avenue/road (on Pecenongan Street, Letjen Suparman Avenue)
• Celebration days (on my birthday, your wedding day)
• Holidays with day (on Christmas day, New Year’s eve)
• Communication platforms (on Instagram, TV, radio, Google)
• Transportations which have large space (on a bus, ship, train, plane)
• Transportations which can be sat only (on a motorcycle, bicycle)
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• Specific places (at Juanda train station, at the bus stop)
• Hours (at 5 PM, at 7 o’clock in the morning)
• Parts of the day (at night, at midnight)
• Time (at the weekend, at the moment, at lunch break)
• Holidays without day (at Christmas, at Id Fitr, at New Year)
• Specific address (at email address, at website address, at phone number)
• Event/festival (at my birthday party, at Jakarta Fair, at the party)
• Age (at the age of 18 I graduated from SHS, I visited Bali at the age of 21)