2020-02-16
5 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry.
And welcome back to our podcast where we try to help you with your understanding of the english language, help you to be able to understand what you see, what you hear, what you write, and also how you speak it with other people.
So the first podcast today is going to look at prepositions, and this comes at the request of one of our listeners who would like me to explain in a bit more detail how to use in, on, and at.
She finds them a little bit confusing.
Okay, so I'll try to explain them as simply as I can.
These are probably, probably three of the most frequently used prepositions.
And when we use them on often, we use them when we're referring to time.
So let me give you a few examples.
In is preposition we use when we're using and talking about long periods of time.
For example, week, months, years, centuries.
I was born in July.
I was born in 1956.
I was born in the 20th century.
Okay, so they're all long periods of time.
And for each of them we are using the preposition in I will see you in a week's time, in a week's time, in longer period of time.
But we can also use in when we're talking about a particular part of the day, what are you doing in the afternoon?
What will you be doing in the morning?
Okay, so when we're talking about those periods of time, we use also the preposition in.
Preposition on is something we use when we're talking about shorter periods of time.