Lesson F Main?
Lesson F - Prepositions in Time
Everyone knows the people below are climbing ON
the letter "F."
That letter is a position on the page.
So "on" is in a "pre" position (Aha!
- Maybe that is why the word is pre-position.)
If you "go to the store," the store is also a
position, and "to" is again a "pre" position.
But there is another way
prepositions are used.
They also give us a "pre" position in time.
For example, we look at the position in time above, and say it is
"after" 0400 hours (or after 1600 hours). If we said we
would be here "at 0400" or "by 0400" or
"before 0400" ---then we are now late.
Some times the preposition seems to be missing. We could have it but we leave it out.
Sorry, but there is no rule for this. It is just usage. But there are not
too many. Examples would be:
I am coming this Friday.
They left yesterday.
On, In, At
are the prepositions we use most often with time. They are all used before that time.
ON -
(day) on Monday, on
New Year's Day
(date)
on
April 25
(day + part) on
Monday morning
IN -
(months) in
April
(year) in
2008
(seasons) in
winter, in the summer
(part of day) in the
morning, in the evening
(time section) in
5 minutes, in 2 years
(general noun) in the beginning, in the end
AT -
(an exact time) at
14:00 , at
9 am
(specific) at the beginning of June
(other specific) at
night, at noon, at the
moment, at the
weekend.
OTHER PREPOSITIONS WITH TIMES:
During
March
Before
March
After
March
Through
March
NEXT we look at PLACE prepositions.
Exercises?
Preposition: they are words which
tell about the position of a word. (Up) Prepositions can be about time or place.
Date: it tells us which exact day
(Up)
Season: a year has 4 seasons: summer, fall, winter and spring.(Up)