Prepositions of Time: 6 Easy Exceptions

in this lesson i'll show you how to talk about time correctly and easily in english specifically we'll be looking at some prepositions of time and also some expressions of time okay and these expressions are used very frequently so let's see what they are all right so i'm going to read you a sentence and after that there are four endings maybe they're right and maybe they're wrong so you tell me what's what okay let's meet in the morning let's meet in the afternoon let's meet in the evening let's meet in the night so think about it were they correct was anything wrong might be right might be wrong tell me what you think right away because you need to know this kind of instinctively and it's not so obvious okay so i'm going to tell you what the answer is actually there is one wrong here and it's this one we do not say in the night we say in the morning in the afternoon in the evening but we do not say in the night we say what at night let's meet at night why why is it different i don't know that's how it is okay these are expressions and that one is an exception all right so we say it differently from the other ones there is no particular reason sometimes you just have to learn things by heart like here okay now let's look at another example i was tired this morning i was tired this afternoon i was tired this evening i was tired this night were those all okay anything wrong there what do you think well there is something wrong there and guess what it's this one okay again so we do not say i was tired this night we say i was tired tonight okay so there again we see that night is an exception so we can say this morning this afternoon this evening but we can't say we cannot say this night at that point we change it we use a different expression which is tonight okay again why why sometimes english we say why because the sky's so high which means there is no particular reason it's just the way it is okay all right let's take another one he called yesterday morning he called yesterday afternoon he called yesterday evening he called yesterday night so are those okay or is there a problem what do you think well guess what it's this one again hey did you see a pattern there okay so what do we say we do say yesterday morning we do say yesterday afternoon we do say yesterday evening but then we say last night he called last night now we use that with night but we don't say last morning okay we don't usually say use last with the other ones and certainly not in north american english okay but we saw in each of these cases that night was an exception and that you had to learn a different expression for night okay so just repeat after me because one of the ways of learning is to hear it another way to learn to remember is to write it okay and another way to say remember is to say it so let's try to do some of these things okay after a while your ears will tell you that no that doesn't sound right just like in your own language but now english is one of your languages so let's do it ready in the morning in the afternoon in the evening at night this morning this afternoon this evening tonight yesterday morning yesterday afternoon yesterday evening last night okay got those all right let's look at a few more alright so the first one see you tomorrow morning see you tomorrow afternoon see you tomorrow evening see you tomorrow night are these okay any problems anything we should change is anything an exception think about it okay so you know what these are all fine these are okay all right and why is it an exception because usually we were saying that night has a different use but in this case it's actually okay to say tomorrow morning tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening tomorrow night okay it wasn't like what we saw before with yesterday or with this all right so these are fine and that's why it's kind of an exception all right now we come to a a little bit of a situation with the prepositions now you remember i had told you that we say in the morning in the afternoon in the evening and at night correct we just learned that we just reviewed that but what happens if you have the day mentioned as well something different so let's look at the options do we say in tuesday morning at tuesday morning or on tuesday morning or afternoon or evening or night okay well there's only one correct possibility here and that is this one okay we cannot say in tuesday just like we cannot say in tuesday or at tuesday we need to only say on tuesday right whenever we're talking about a day or a date we say on so even if you have after that mentioned morning afternoon evening or night what's more important is not that expression in the morning but this expression on plus the day okay so in this case it changes a little bit all right so we say on tuesday morning on tuesday afternoon on thursday evening on friday night okay so keep that in mind that even though we had the expressions in the morning in the afternoon in the evening and at night as soon as we mentioned the day we're going to use the preposition on all right good and now the last expression something that's used very often good morning good afternoon good evening good night okay so those are fine as expressions so why why are they here on the board because there is a slight difference in the way that we use them and the difference is this do you know what the difference is okay i'll tell you so these three good morning good afternoon good evening these are all like saying hello at that particular time of day so when you arrive somewhere let's say okay and you see someone okay you come to work in the morning you say hey good morning it's like a way of saying hi but in the morning and you go to you meet someone for lunch and it's a formal situation and you say good afternoon okay or you call an office and you're trying to be very polite to the receptionist and you say good afternoon may i speak to mr johnson please okay so again it's a way of saying hi but another way another more formal greeting you go to a restaurant and the manager asks you says to you good evening sir can i get you a table and you say yes please so good evening is also another way that that person said hi to you when you arrive somewhere okay but let's say now it's a it's later it's even later at night and somebody goes to a bar and he walks in and the bartender says good night is that okay no so good night is not used to say hello even if it is night good night is only used when somebody leaves or sleeps okay so we do not say good night even if it is night to say hi so if it's night and you go to your friend's house you don't say hey goodnight no you can't do that when you first walk in all right so it's not a greeting that you use when you first meet somebody but at the end of the night or whenever you're leaving you can say to him okay take care good night so if you're not going to see him or her for the rest of the night then you can say good night and another way that's used very very frequently is when someone is going to sleep let's say most usually parents and children okay so before the child goes to sleep the parents gave him or her kiss and say okay sweetheart good night and then they put off the light and they hope that the child will sleep all night long okay so that's another way that we say good night and sometimes with children we also add other things like sweet dreams and things like that okay but the main difference here is that these can be used as greetings when you arrive somewhere as a way to say hi and this one is when you're leaving or when someone is about to go to sleep and it's a way of saying bye okay so these were some of the expressions now let's check how much you remember of what we learned in this lesson all right so there are seven sentences on the board some of these are right some are wrong you decide which okay all right number one i'll send the email this afternoon is that right or wrong if you need to you can pause the video if you need a little more time to think about it but i'm going to go ahead all right so i'll send the email this afternoon is correct okay so that was fine are we meeting in sunday is that right or wrong pause if you need to this one is incorrect should be on sunday and again if it said on sunday morning on sunday afternoon on sunday evening on sunday night okay so whether it just says the day or it's followed by morning afternoon evening or night you still need to use the preposition on okay good number three the concert is tomorrow night right or wrong okay so this one is correct all right we can say tomorrow morning tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening and tomorrow night all right number four good night how are you is that correct okay no that is wrong because we cannot use goodnight to say hello okay you could say good morning how are you good afternoon how are you good evening how are you but you either say good night and then nothing after that okay or you'd have to say something else here and then say how are you okay so we say good night when when some somebody's going to sleep okay or it doesn't have to be a child it could also be an adult okay they're going to their room say good night okay or to your partner you can say goodnight and you also say let's say when you're leaving someone's house and you've had dinner and you've had spent a nice evening with them now you're going home you're not going to see them again so you say all right thank you very much good night all right that's that next the snow looks beautiful in the night is that right or wrong so that one is wrong it should be at night okay so remember there we could say in the morning in the afternoon in the evening but at night okay you'll get used to it pretty pretty soon the the rhythm of it will get into your your english brain okay good number six my exam is in monday morning is that right or wrong okay that one is wrong again like we said we're here okay the same here it should be on monday morning okay so whether we're saying just on monday or we say on monday morning on monday afternoon on monday evening or on monday night okay very good and the last one number seven the parcel arrived yesterday night is that right or wrong okay that one is also wrong because it should be what what do we say instead of yesterday night we say last night okay so we do say yesterday morning we do say yesterday afternoon we do say yesterday evening but then we say last night okay the parcel arrived last night okay so i know it can be a little bit confusing but at the same time you can see that sorry that there are some patterns okay so once you understand those patterns and you start to apply them regularly you will master it okay and make up your mind that now that you've spent the time to watch this lesson you're going to master this once and for all there are not that many that i covered and whatever we covered just make it a point to review them if necessary watch the video again in the course of this week write some sentences out say some sentences out loud and try to use them this week okay so that you really review them a lot and to do some more practice go to our website www.invid.com there you can do a quiz on this and also subscribe to my youtube channel for lots of other lessons that will help you learn english more easily and quickly thanks very much for watching bye for now and all the best with your english

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Length: 15min 53sec (953 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021