Lesson 247--order of prepositions

 

Prepositions are used for many things.  In today's lesson we look at prepositions of time and place and their order.

We went to the park. (place)

We went in the afternoon. (time)

When we put them together, we put place before time.

We went to the park in the afternoon. (correct)

We went in the afternoon to the park. (incorrect)

However we can rearrange the sentence to put the time at beginning of the sentence.

In the afternoon, we went to the park.

more examples. (All the sentences are correct)

I drove to work on Monday.  However, I took the bus to work on Tuesday.

On Monday, I drove to work.  On Tuesday, however, I took the bus to work.

On Monday I drove to work.  However, on Tuesday, I took the bus to work.