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Preposition of time and place
1. PREPOSITION OF TIME AND
PLACE
FOR CLASS VII STATE
SYLLABUS STUDENTS
CHAPTER 2
GRAMMAR.
2. Read the following sentences from the
lesson and observe how the underlined
words are used before the names of dates,
the names of years and the names of
places.
3. a) Raman was born on November 7,
1888.
b) Raman passed away in 1970 on
November 21.
c) Raman did his M.A course at
Presidency College in Madras.
d) In December, on a fine evening in
1927, there was much excitement.
4. Now fill in the blanks with ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘at’
5. Sarathchandra and Keerthana are brother and
sister. Sarathchandra was born on 25th April in
2000. Keerthana was born on December 2, 2001.
They are with their parents. They live at
Kondamudusupalem, a small village in Prakasam
District. They play games at school. It is usually
very hot in May at their village. So they spend
their summer in Hyderabad at their uncle’s house.
Mr. Srisailam is their uncle. He resides at High
Court Colony in Hyderabad with his wife,
Jagadeeswari and his daughter, Vishnu Priya.
6. Prepositions of time
Preposition How to use Example
at exact times
meal times
parts of day
age
at 5pm
at lunch
at the evening
at age
in Seasons months
years
After a certain
period of time
in the summer
in December
in the same year
on Days of the week
Parts of the day
where the day is
named and dates
on Monday
on Friday night
on December 15th
7. Prepositions of place
Preposition How to use Example
at an object’s settled
position
at the airport
at the ceremony
at home
in in an enclosed space
in a geographic
location
in a print
in the school; in
the garden
in India; in
America
in a book
on for a certain side
for river
for a floor in a house
for television; radio
on the left
on Ganges
on the floor
on the air; on TV
8. Now fill in the blanks with ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘at’