Structure 1 - Prepositions

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Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in

We use at to designate specific times.
            eg. The train is due at 12:15 p.m.

We use on to designate days and dates.
            eg.My brother is coming on Monday.
               We're having a party on the Fourth of July.

We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
           eg. She likes to jog in the morning.
                 It's too cold in winter to run outside.
                He started the job in 1971.
                 He's going to quit in August.

Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in

We use at for specific addresses.
           eg. Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.

We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
           eg. Her house is on Boretz Road.

And we use infor the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).

Examples:
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.
Windham Countyis in Connecticut.

Prepositions of Location: in, at, and on and No Preposition
IN (the) bed* the bedroom the car (the) class* the library* school*	AT class* home the library* the office school* work	ON the bed* the ceiling the floor the horse the plane the train	NO PREPOSITION downstairs downtown inside outside upstairs uptown

* You may sometimes use different prepositions for these locations.

Prepositions of Movement: to
and No Preposition

We use to in order to express movement toward a place.
            eg. They were driving to work together.
                 She's going to the dentist's office this morning.

Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply variant spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.
           eg. We're moving toward the light.
                 This is a big step towards the project's completion.

With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no preposition.
           eg. Grandma went upstairs
                 Grandpa went home.
                 They both went outside.

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