Hello buddies, hoy os traemos algunos de los usos más frecuentes de las preposiciones AT, IN, ON.

Si, si, con éstas nos liamos bastante tanto si las usamos como preposiciones de tiempo o de lugar/posición. A ver si hoy arrojamos un poquito de luz y con este post os aclaramos los usos más importantes.

Vamos por partes:

AT, IN, ON prepositions of time

We use IN for periods of time, months, years, seasons, decades, morning, afternoon, evening.
For example: in six months, in the nineties (90’s), in a moment, in two days, in ten minutes, in the summer, in 2018, in the morning, in February…

We use ON for days and date, the weekend (US)
For example: on July 20th, on Saturday, on the weekend (US), onTuesday morning, on my birthday, on New Year’s day, on Christmas’ Eve…

We use AT for precise times, festivals, holiday periods, the weekend (UK) and night.
For example: at Christmas, at night, at the weekend(UK), at 10 o’clock, at Easter, at lunchtime…

We don’t need to use these preposition with some time expressions
For example: next week, tomorrow, this afternoon, yesterday, today, last winter…

AT, IN, ON prepositions of place

At a point, in an area, on a surface.

We can use at to mean «a reference or meeting point» or in to mean «inside».
For example:
She’s usually at the office in the mornings.
We’ll have a meeting in the conference room.
We can say we are at the office or in the office.

At is mainly used with

-Public places, buildings: at the airport, at the bus stop, at the office, at the shopping centre, at the hospital, at the hotel, at the doctor’s, at the hairdressers’…
-Events: at a concert, at a party, at a meeting, at a wedding, at a dinner…

We also say that someone is: at home, at work, at school, at university.

In is mainly used with

-Cities, towns, countries (and other large areas): in Europe, in Paris, in the Pacific Ocean, in the Mediterranean, in the Sahara…
-Outside areas: in the garden, in the park, in the pool, in the street…
-Rooms: in the kitchen, in the bedroom…

We say that someone is in hospital / in prison if they are there as patients / prisoners.
We can say we are at the hospital visiting someone.

Esperamos que a partir de ahora os resulte un poco menos confuso utilizar estas preposiciones taaaan comunes. 😉

Hoy os traemos algunos trucos para decir y escribir correctamente la fecha en inglés.

Hay que tener en cuenta sobre todo:

-si es escrito o hablado
-si es inglés británico o americano

Te lo explicamos en un “plis”.

There are two ways of saying the date in English

British English

It’s written: day + month
E.g. 22nd November

But you say:
the twenty second of November

American English

It’s written: month + day
E.g. November, 22

But you say:
November the twenty second

Be careful with the day/month or month/day because in some cases it makes a big difference:

E.g.
American English 4/6/17 (month/day/year) > May 6, 2017
British English 6/4/17 (day/month/year) > 4th June 2017 Big difference!

Other things to keep in mind:

Days: we always use ordinal numbers for the spoken date in English (in British English you also write it but in American English you don’t)

1st-first
2nd-second
3rd-third
4th-fourth
5th-fifth
6th-sixth
7th-seventh
8th-eighth
9th-ninth
10th-tenth
etc…

Months: you always write months with a capital letter at the start

December-right
december-wrong 

Years: when you speak about years, they are usually divided into two parts

2017 twenty-seventeen
1978 nineteen-seventy eight

*Except for: years between 2001-2010

E.g. 2005 – we say two thousand and five