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Prepositions of time

English prepositions

Generally speaking one can classify prepositions in three groups:

 prepositions of time

 prepositions of place

 and other kinds of prepositions

The following table includes the prepositions of time.

Prepositions of time

Preposition of
Explanations Example
time

 days  Many shops don't

open on Sundays.
on  weekend (American English)
 What did you do on the
weekend?

in  months / seasons / year  I visited

Italy in July, in spring, in 1994
 morning / evening / afternoon

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 period of time  In the evenings, I like to relax.

 This is the first cigarette I've

had in three years.

 night  It gets cold at night.

 weekend (British English)  What did you do at the

at weekend?
 used to show an exact or a
particular time:  There's a meeting at 2.30 this
afternoon / at lunch time.

 from a particular time in the  England have not won the

since past until a later time, or until World Cup in
now football since1966

 used to show an amount of  I'm just going to bed for an

for
time. hour or so.

 back in the past; back in time  The dinosaurs died out 65

ago
from the present: million years ago.

 at or during a time earlier  She's always up before dawn.

before
than

 used when saying the time, to  It's twenty to six.

to
mean before the stated hour

past  telling the time  five past ten

to  until a particular time,  It's only two weeks to

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marking end of a period of Christmas.

time

 used to show the time when  The museum is open from 9.30
from
something starts to 6.00 Tuesday to Sunday.

 up to (the time that)  We waited till / until half past

till / until
six for you.

 not later than; at or before  She had promised to be

by
back by five o'clock.

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