Vocabulary Worksheets

Basic English Grammar, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5: Talking About the Present

Worksheet 4. Prepositions of time

Complete the sentences. Write at, from, in, on, or to in each blank space.
1. The stores downtown open _____________ 10:00 A.M. They close ____________ 6:00 P.M. They are open ____________ the morning and _________ the afternoon, but they are not open ________ night.

2. The new year starts ___________ January, ____________ January 1. My little niece was born ____________ the first day of the new century, ____________ January 1, 2000.

3. A new semester starts ___________ September 5. It ends __________ December 15. The semester lasts _____________ early September _____________ mid-December.

4. In the northern hemisphere, summer begins ____________ June 21 and ends ____________ September 21. Summer lasts ____________ June 21 ____________ September 21.

5. Jeremy is a pharmacist at a 24-hour pharmacy. He works the night shift. He starts work ___________ 11:00 P.M. and finishes ________ 8:00 A.M. the next day. He doesnt work ___________ Tuesdays.

night shift = a period of time at night when people regularly work, instead of

during normal daytime working hours.

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