{"id":6,"date":"2019-09-12T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2019-09-19T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:36:07","slug":"prepositions-of-time-at-on-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/grammar-mind-maps\/prepositions-of-time-at-on-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Map: Prepositions of time (at\/ on\/ in)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prepositions of time (at\/in\/on) can be confusing for English learners. To find out the differences, read the post:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"opinion-popup-img\" href=https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mind-Map-Prepositions-of-time-.jpg  data-size=\"{&quot;w&quot;:1920,&quot;h&quot;:1280}\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mind-Map-Prepositions-of-time-.jpg\" alt=\"Mind Map: Prepositions of time (at\/ on\/ in)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mind-Map-Prepositions-of-time-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mind-Map-Prepositions-of-time--300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mind-Map-Prepositions-of-time--768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We use: <strong>AT<\/strong> for the time of the day:<br \/>\n\u2022 At five o\u2019clock<br \/>\n\u2022 At 11.45<br \/>\n\u2022 At midnight<br \/>\n\u2022 At lunchtime<br \/>\n\u2022 At sunset<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We use: <strong>ON<\/strong> for days and dates<br \/>\n\u2022 On Friday\/ on Fridays<br \/>\n\u2022 On 16 May 2013<br \/>\n\u2022 On Christmas Day<br \/>\n\u2022 On my birthday<\/p>\n<p>We use: <strong>IN<\/strong> for longer periods (for example: months\/years\/seasons)<br \/>\n\u2022 In June<br \/>\n\u2022 In 2015<br \/>\n\u2022 In (the) winter<br \/>\n\u2022 In the 19th century<br \/>\n\u2022 In the past<br \/>\n\u2022 In the future<br \/>\n\u2022 In the Renaissance<\/p>\n<p>We use <strong>AT<\/strong> in these expressions:<br \/>\n\u2022 At night<br \/>\n\u2022 At the weekend\/ at weekends<br \/>\n\u2022 At Christmas<br \/>\n\u2022 At the moment\/ at present<br \/>\n\u2022 At the same time<\/p>\n<p>We say:<br \/>\n\u2022 In the morning(s)<br \/>\n\u2022 In the afternoon(s)<br \/>\n\u2022 In the evening(s)<\/p>\n<p>But:<br \/>\n\u2022 On Friday morning(s)<br \/>\n\u2022 On Sunday afternoon(s)<br \/>\n\u2022 On Monday evening(s)<\/p>\n<p>NB Most examples are taken from English Grammar in Use, third edition, Raymund Murphy, Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n<p>Or you can simply memorise it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepositions of time (at\/in\/on) can be confusing for English learners. To find out the differences, read the post: We use: AT for the time of the day: \u2022 At five o\u2019clock \u2022 At 11.45 \u2022 At midnight \u2022 At lunchtime \u2022 At sunset<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar-mind-maps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prevodioci.co.rs\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}