Lesson 1: Prepositions
LINGUAPUNCTURE
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What is a Preposition?
A preposition is a word which connects two words by showing their relation. Prepositions can show a number
of relationships such as time, location, direction, means, agent, purpose, etc.
Prepositions of TIME
Prepositions
Meaning
Examples
ON
For specific days
On Monday
IN
For parts of the day,
months, years and
seasons
In the morning, in the afternoon, in the
evening (exception: AT night)
In December,
In 1997,
In winter
AT
In a place, to
express the time
something happens,
and certain
expressions
At the cinema, at school,
At three
o’clock, at noon, at night, at midnight
FOR/DURING
Complete periods of
time
Within complete
periods of time
I’ve worked here for two years
I heard noises during the night
SINCE
To mark the
beginning of a period
of time with
reference to the
present
Since 1950
BY
To mark the end of a
time limit
You must finish the report by 5 o’clock on
Tuesday
FROM…TO FROM…UNTIL
To mark the
beginning and the
end of a period
I work from 9 to 5, Monday to Friday
I work from 9 to 5, Monday until Friday
