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Unit 2 - Ex9

The document discusses prepositions and adverbs of time. It explains that we use "at" for precise times, "in" for months, years or long periods except night, and "on" for days of the week. It also lists common single-word time adverbs that modify verbs and indicate when something happens, including points of time like now, then, and yesterday, and frequencies like daily, weekly and yearly.

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Unit 2 - Ex9

The document discusses prepositions and adverbs of time. It explains that we use "at" for precise times, "in" for months, years or long periods except night, and "on" for days of the week. It also lists common single-word time adverbs that modify verbs and indicate when something happens, including points of time like now, then, and yesterday, and frequencies like daily, weekly and yearly.

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Unit 2 Ex 9 Grammar Focus

Prepositions of Time - at, in, on


We use:

 at for a PRECISE TIME – Times of day; night


 in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS – Parts of day
except night.
 on for DAYS and DATES – days of the week.

Adverbs of Time
This is a list of common single-word time adverbs.

Adverbs of time mainly modify verbs and tell us when


something happens.

points of time (definite)


 Now
 then
 today
 tomorrow
 tonight
 yesterday

frequency (definite)
 annually
 daily
 fortnightly
 hourly
 monthly
 nightly
 quarterly
 weekly
 yearly

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