Time adverbials

-You use adverbials of time to say when something happens. You often use noun groups called time expressions as adverbials of time. Usually put at the end of the sentence and if you don't want to put emphasis on the time, you can also put the adverb of time at the beginning of the sentence.

·         yesterday

·         today

·         tomorrow last year

·         next Saturday

·         next week the day after tomorrow

·         last night

·         the other day

Examples:

One of my children wrote to me today..

So, you're coming back next week?

We use phrases with prepositions as time adverbials:

 We use at with:

·         clock times: at seven o’clock - at nine thirty - at fifteen hundred hours

·         mealtimes: at breakfast - at lunchtime - at teatime

 We use in with:

·         seasons of the year: in spring/summer/autumn/winter - in the spring /summer/autumn/winter

·         years and centuries: in 2009 -in 1998 - in the twentieth century

·         months: in January/February/March etc.

·         parts of the day: in the morning - in the afternoon - in the evening.

We use on with:

·         days: on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday etc - on Christmas day - on my birthday.

·         dates: on the thirty first of July - on June 15th

Note: We say at night when we are talking about all of the night:

When there is no moon it is very dark at night.

He sleeps during the day and works at night.

But we say in the night when we are talking about a short time during the night:

He woke up twice in the night.

I heard a funny noise in the night.

We use the adverb ago with the past simple to say how long before the time of speaking something happened:

·         I saw Jim about three weeks ago.

·         We arrived a few minutes ago.

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