| 词组 | at on and in time |
| 释义 | Contents overview at , on and in : timeChristmas: prepositionsChristmas: prepositions prepositions 386.410331Easter: prepositionsEaster: prepositions prepositions 386.410531What time ...?What time ...? 386.711939386 at, on and in: timeat + clock timeat + weekend, public holidayin + part of dayin + longer periodon + particular day1clock times: atI usually get up at six o'clock.I'll meet you at 4.15.Phone me at lunch time.At is usually left out before what time in an informal style (386.7).What time does your train leave?2parts of the day: inI work best in the morning.three o'clock in the afternoonWe usually go out in the evening.Note the difference between in the night (mostly used to mean 'during one particular night') and at night (= during any night). Compare:I had to get up in the night.I often work at night.In an informal style, we sometimes use plurals (days, etc) with no preposition.Would you rather work days or nights?We use on if we say which morning/afternoon, etc we are talking about, or if we describe the morning/afternoon, etc.See you on Monday morning.We met on a cold afternoon in early spring.3days: onI'll ring you on Tuesday.My birthday's on March 21st.They're having a party on Christmas Day.In an informal style we sometimes leave out on.I'm seeing her Sunday morning.We use plurals (Sundays, Mondays, etc) to talk about repeated actions.We usually go and see Granny on Sundays.4public holidays and weekends: atWe use at to talk about the whole of the holidays at Christmas, New Year, Easter and Thanksgiving (AmE).We're having the roof repaired at Easter.But we use on to talk about one day of the holiday.Come and see us on Christmas Day.What are you doing on Easter Monday?British people say at the weekend; Americans use on.What did you do at the weekend?5longer periods: inIt happened in the week after Christmas.I was born in March.Kent is beautiful in spring.Our house was built in the 15th century.He died in 1616.6other uses of inIn can also be used to say how soon something will happen, and to say how long something takes to happen.Ask me again in three or four days.I can run 200 metres in about 30 seconds.The expression in …'s time is used to say how soon something will happen, not how long something takes. Compare:I'll see you again in a month's time.It'll be ready in three weeks' time.He wrote the book in a month. (not … in a month's time.)In American English, in can be used in negative sentences, like for, to talk about periods up to the present.I haven't seen her in years.7expressions with no prepositionAt/on/in are not normally used in expressions of time before next, last, this, that (sometimes), one, any (in an informal style), each, every, some, all.See you next week.Are you free this morning?I'm at home every evening.We stayed all day.Come any time.I didn't feel very well that week.We met one day in late August.These prepositions are not normally used, either, before yesterday, the day before yesterday, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.What are you doing the day after tomorrow?And prepositions are usually dropped in questions beginning What/Which + expression of time, and in answers which only contain an expression of time.What day is the meeting?Which week did you say you're away?'What time are you leaving?''Eight o'clock.'Note that at is usually pronounced /ət/, not /æt/ (315).For the difference between in and during, 441.Previous Next |
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