This document provides examples of time expressions used with prepositions like "in", "on", and "at" as well as without prepositions to indicate different periods of time. It lists common ways to specify centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, seasons, days of the week, dates, hours, and periods like morning, afternoon, and evening. Examples are given for both past, present and future time frames. The document serves as a reference for correctly using time expressions in language.
This document provides examples of time expressions used with prepositions like "in", "on", and "at" as well as without prepositions to indicate different periods of time. It lists common ways to specify centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, seasons, days of the week, dates, hours, and periods like morning, afternoon, and evening. Examples are given for both past, present and future time frames. The document serves as a reference for correctly using time expressions in language.
This document provides examples of time expressions used with prepositions like "in", "on", and "at" as well as without prepositions to indicate different periods of time. It lists common ways to specify centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, seasons, days of the week, dates, hours, and periods like morning, afternoon, and evening. Examples are given for both past, present and future time frames. The document serves as a reference for correctly using time expressions in language.
IN CENTURIES In the 1900’s In the 17th century In the 1st century BC DECADES In the 1990’s In the 80’s In the 60’s YEARS In 1645 In 2020 In 1986 MONTHS In May In August In December WEEKS In five weeks In 6 weeks In 20 weeks SEASONS In spring In autumn In winter PERIODS OF THE DAY In the morning In the afternoon In the evening (Especial Expressions) In ages In the future In the past Lic. Ma. Eugenia Maldonado ON On Monday On Thursdays On Christmas Day DAYS and DATES On 11 July On September 11 On May 13, 2016 (Especial Expressions) On the weekend On holiday On Monday morning
AT HOURS At 5 o’clock At 18:30 At sunset
(Especial Expressions) At night At the weekend At the present
Lic. Ma. Eugenia Maldonado
Time expressions without prepositions Last week Last month Last year PAST An hour ago Two days ago Three years ago Yesterday This week This month This year PRESENT Now nowadays Tomorrow Next week Next month FUTURE Soon Later