18.03.2003 / by Tatyana Chepkova / in "Time"
Предлоги в реке времени
Prepositions are a nightmare of those who study English! Let’s try and straighten out a tangle of prepositions with different time periods.
There is a general rule: at is used with short time periods, within the bound of a day, on is used for days, and we use in with longer periods from month to ages.
at+time of a day
at 6.00 p.m.
at noon
at lunchtime
at midnight
at night
at the moment
at present
Note: at Christmas, at weekend.
on+days (dates and weekdays)
on Sunday
on 21 August
on my birthday
on Christmas day
in+ages, eras, centuries, years, seasons, months
in Middle Ages
in May
in winter
in 1997
in the 19th century
Note: in the evening, in the morning, in the afternoon.
Note: in the evening but on Sunday evening.
Do not use any prepositions before last, next, this, every (last month, this Friday, next spring, every year).
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