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PREPOSITION – IN, ON, AT
Preposition of time
at in on
at 8.15 in the morning/ afternoon/ on Sunday (days)
at Christmas / evening on March 28th (dates)
Easter in July (months) on a winter night
at night/ midnight/ in summer (seasons) on Saturday morning
noon in 1999 (years) on time (at the right
at the weekend in the 20th century (centuries) time)
in five minutes/ in a week
(future)
in time (early enough, not
late)
I / Fill in: at, in, on
1. ____________ the evening 9. ____________ November
2. ____________ Monday 10.____________ the summer
3. ____________ midnight 11.____________ 1967
4. ____________ April 13th 12.____________ noon
5. ____________ 5.30 13.____________ the 15th century
6. ____________ Tuesday morning 14.____________ Sunday morning
7. ____________ Christmas 15. ____________ a spring
8. ____________ 6.30 night
II / Fill in the blank with “in, on or at”
1. I'll meet you ____________ the morning.
2. The meeting starts ____________ three.
3. I'll go to the restaurant with you ____________the evening.
4. I usually stay home ____________ night.
5. I get out of class ____________ noon.
6. I'll call you ____________ six o'clock.
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7. She came ____________ Monday.
8. She came ____________ March.
9. I was born ____________ 1970.
10. I was born ____________ March 15th.
11. They managed to complete the work ____________ two weeks.
12. He played a trick on me ____________ April Fool's Day.
13. I'll help you ____________ a minute.
14. I'll be ready ____________a few minutes.
15. ____________ the moment, I'm doing an exercise.
16. He's due to arrive ____________ 14 February.
17. I like to go swimming ____________ summer.
18. I'm working ____________ my birthday.
III / Fill in: at, in, on
My birthday is (1) ________ the 30th of July. Last year I had a great day. I got up (2) ________
8 o’ clock (3) ________ the morning and tidied the house. Then (4) ________ the afternoon I
went into town with my friend to buy food for the party. The party started (5) ________ 7 o’
clock (6) ________ the evening and didn’t stop until very late (7) ________ night! (8)
________ July 31st I was very tired, so I went to bed early (9) ________ the evening.
IV/ Fill in: at, in, on
Hightown Zoo opens at (1) ________ 9 o’ clock (2) ________ the morning. (3) ________
Saturdays and Sundays it opens (4) ________ 10.30. it’s a good idea to come early (5)
________ the summer because the zoo gets very full. The best time to visit is (6) ________ the
afternoon because you can see the animals being fed. The zoo first opened (7) ________ Easter
(8) ________ 1903. But most of the buildings were built (9) ________ the nineteenth century.
People can visit Hightown Zoo (10) _______ any time, (11) ________ summer or (12)
________ the winter. It’s only closed (13) ________ Christmas and (14) ________ 1st January.