Time Expressions in English
Using Time Expressions in PAST Tense
Yesterday
Last week
Last month
Last year
A little while ago
An hour ago
This morning
In the past
A long times ago
The day before yesterday
Recently
In 1989
When I was born
One week ago
Using Time Expressions in PRESENT Tense
Today
This week
This month
This year
At the moment
Now
At this time
Nowadays
These days
Right now
As we speak
Using Time Expressions in FUTURE Tense
Tomorrow
Next week
Next month
Next year
In an hour
Soon
In the near future
Later this evening
In the future
Way off in the future
The day after tomorrow
Eventually
Using Time Expressions with Preposition IN
- In the morning
- In the afternoon
- In the evening
- In January
- In December
- In the Summer
- In 1970
- In the 1990’s
- In the seventies
- In the 20st century
- In the past
- In the future
- In 15 year’s time
- In the Christmas holiday
- In two hours
Using Time Expressions with Preposition ON
- On Monday
- On January 3rd
- On the 10th
- On the first day
- On the last day
- On my birthday
- On Christmas day
- On East day
- On holiday
- On my wedding day
- On that day
- on Saturday night
- On a Summer evening
Using Time Expressions with Preposition AT
- At 10 o’clock
- At midday
- At noon
- At dusk
- At dawn
- At night
- At the weekend
- At Christmas
- At Easter
- At the moment
- At that time
- At the beginning
- At the end
- At breakfast
- At dinnertime
ADVERBS of TIME in English
Adverbs of time answer the question “WHEN“? It tells us when an action happened besides how long, how often. Most important adverbs of time list;
- Always
- Already
- Annually
- Before
- Constantly
- Daily
- Early
- Earlier
- Eventually
- Ever
- Frequently
- Finally
- First
- Formerly
- Fortnightly
- Generally
- Hourly
- Immediately
- Infrequently
- Just
- Last
- Late
- Later
- Lately
- Monthly
- Not until
- Now
- Normally
- Never
- Next
- Often
- Occasionally
- Previously
- Quarterly
- Rarely
- Regularly
- Recently
- Seldom
- Sometimes
- Since
- Soon
- Still
- Then
- Today
- Tomorrow
- Tonight
- Yesterday
- Usually
- Yet
- Weekly
- Yearly
