USING PREPOSITIONS

Describing Location

ON for surfaces, streets, roads, avenues, highways, boulevards, and planets/celestial

bodies

on the floor on Lazatin Boulevard

on the rooftop on O.G. Road
on San Miguel Street on the moon
on MacArthur Highway on Mars
on Jose Abad Santos Avenue

IN for specific locations inside a house or building, land areas such as subdivisions,
villages, barangays, barrios, towns, cities, provinces, states, countries, and
continents

in the kitchen in Baranggay Sto. Rosario, in a/the

in the conference room barangay
in St. Jude Subdivision, in a/the in Pampanga
subdivision in North Carolina
in Sto. Domingo Village, in a/the village in Europe
note: on the terrace

AT for buildings (including locations outside or near a building) and numbered

addresses
at home
at the garage
at the parking lot
at the mall
at #6 Consunji Street

EXCEPTIONS:
hotel and apartment numbers- in room 24, in apartment 3D

Expressing Time

ON for days of the week, month + day, and complete dates

on Monday
on January 18 / on 18 January
on January 18, 2009 / on 18 January, 2009

IN for months, years, and month + year / with morning, evening, afternoon

in January in the morning

in 2009 in the evening
in January 2009
in the afternoon

AT for specific times of the day and with the words noon, night, midnight, dawn,
sunrise, and sunset

at three o’clock
at noon
at night
at midnight
at dawn
at sunrise
at sunset

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