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    This document provides examples of usage for various English prepositions related to time and place. For time prepositions, it gives examples like "on Monday" or "in August." Place prepositions examples include locations like "in the kitchen" or "at the station," and directions such as "across the bridge" or "towards the house." The document also distinguishes uses of similar prepositions like "on, at, in" and "over, across, through."

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    This document provides examples of usage for various English prepositions related to time and place. For time prepositions, it gives examples like "on Monday" or "in August." Place prepositions examples include locations like "in the kitchen" or "at the station," and directions such as "across the bridge" or "towards the house." The document also distinguishes uses of similar prepositions like "on, at, in" and "over, across, through."

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    This document provides examples of usage for various English prepositions related to time and place. For time prepositions, it gives examples like "on Monday" or "in August." Place prepositions examples include locations like "in the kitchen" or "at the station," and directions such as "across the bridge" or "towards the house." The document also distinguishes uses of similar prepositions like "on, at, in" and "over, across, through."

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    This document provides examples of usage for various English prepositions related to time and place. For time prepositions, it gives examples like "on Monday" or "in August." Place prepositions examples include locations like "in the kitchen" or "at the station," and directions such as "across the bridge" or "towards the house." The document also distinguishes uses of similar prepositions like "on, at, in" and "over, across, through."

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    Prepositions Time

    English
    on in

    Other important Prepositions


    Usage Example
    on Monday in August / in winter in the morning in 2006 in an hour by who made it a book by Mark Twain

    English
    from of

    Usage
    who gave it who/what does it belong to what does it show

    Example
    a present from Jane a page of the book the picture of a palace

    days of the week months / seasons time of day year

    after a certain period of time (when?) for night for weekend a certain point of time (when?)

    at night at the weekend at half past nine since 1980

    on

    at

    walking or riding on horseback


    entering a public transport vehicle

    on foot, on horseback
    get on the bus

    in off

    entering a car / Taxi leaving a public transport vehicle leaving a car / Taxi rise or fall of something travelling (other than walking or horseriding)

    get in the car get off the train

    since

    from a certain point of time (past till now) over a certain period of time (past till now) a certain time in the past

    for

    for 2 years

    out of by

    get out of the taxi prices have risen by 10 percent by car, by bus

    ago before

    2 years ago before 2004 ten to six (5:50) ten past six (6:10) from Monday to/till Friday at about

    earlier than a certain point of time telling the time telling the time

    for age for topics, meaning what about

    she learned Russian at 45 we were talking about you

    to past

    to / till / until

    marking the beginning and end of a period of time in the sense of how long something is going to last in the sense of at the latest up to a certain time

    till / until

    He is on holiday until Friday. I will be back by 6 oclock. By 11 o'clock, I had read five pages.

    by

    Prepositions Place (Position and Direction)


    English
    in at

    Usage
    room, building, street, town, country book, paper etc. car, taxi picture, world meaning next to, by an object for table for events

    Example
    in the kitchen, in London in the book in the car, in a taxi in the picture, in the world

    English
    above

    Usage
    higher than something else, but not directly over it

    Example
    a path above the lake

    at the door, at the station at the table at a concert, at the party at the cinema, at school, at work

    across

    getting to the other side (also over) getting to the other side

    walk across the bridge swim across the lake

    place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study, work) attached for a place with a river being on a surface for a certain side (left, right) for a floor in a house for public transport for television, radio left or right of somebody or something

    on

    the picture on the wall London lies on the Thames. on the table on the left on the first floor on the bus, on a plane on TV, on the radio Jane is standing by / next to / beside the car.

    through

    something with limits on top, bottom and the sides

    drive through the tunnel

    by, next to, beside

    to

    movement to person or building movement to a place or country for bed enter a room / a building

    go to the cinema go to London / Ireland go to bed go into the kitchen / the house

    under

    on the ground, lower than (or covered by) something else lower than something else but above ground covered by something else meaning more than getting to the other side (also

    the bag is under the table

    into

    below

    the fish are below the surface

    towards

    movement in the direction of something (but not directly to it)

    go 5 steps towards the house

    over

    put a jacket over your shirt over 16 years of age walk over the bridge

    onto

    movement to the top of something

    jump onto the table

    English
    across)

    Usage

    Example
    climb over the wall

    English

    Usage

    Example

    overcoming an obstacle

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