Time and Dates. Prepositions

• We use at with:

clock times: at seven o’clock - at nine thirty - at fifteen hundred hours
mealtimes: at breakfast - at lunchtime - at teatime

… and in these phrases:

at night - at the weekend - at Christmas - at Easter

• We use in with:

seasons of the year: in spring/summer/autumn/winter - in the spring /summer/autumn/winter
years and centuries: in 2009 -in 1998 - in the twentieth century
months: in January/February/March etc.
parts of the day: in the morning - in the afternoon - in the evening.

• We use on with:

days: on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday etc - on Christmas day - on my birthday.
dates: on the thirty first of July - on June 15th

Note: We say at night when we are talking about all of the night:

When there is no moon it is very dark at night.
He sleeps during the day and works at night.

but we say in the night when we are talking about a short time during the night:

He woke up twice in the night.
I heard a funny noise in the night.

We use the adverb ago with the past simple to say how long before the time of speaking something happened:

I saw Jim about three weeks ago.
We arrived a few minutes ago.

We can put time phrases together:

We will meet next week at six o’clock on Monday.
I heard a funny noise at about eleven o’clock last night.
It happened last week at seven o’clockon Monday night.

Order of adjectives

Order of adjectives

When more than one adjective comes before a noun, the adjectives are normally in a particular order. Adjectives which describe opinions or attitudes (e.g. amazing) usually come first, before more neutral, factual ones (e.g. red):

She was wearing an amazing red coat.

Not: … red amazing coat

If we don’t want to emphasise any one of the adjectives, the most usual sequence of adjectives is:

order	relating to	examples
1	opinion	unusual, lovely, beautiful
2	size	big, small, tall
3	physical quality	thin, rough, untidy
4	shape	round, square, rectangular
5	age	young, old, youthful
6	colour	blue, red, pink
7	origin	Dutch, Japanese, Turkish
8	material	metal, wood, plastic
9	type	general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped
10	purpose	cleaning, hammering, cooking

It was made of a 1strange, 6green, 8metallic material.

It’s a 4long, 8narrow, 10plastic brush.

Panettone is a 4round, 7Italian, 9bread-like Christmas cake.

Here are some invented examples of longer adjective phrases. A noun phrase which included all these types would be extremely rare.

She was a 1beautiful, 2tall, 3thin, 5young, 6black-haired, 7Scottish woman.

What an 1amazing, 2little, 5old, 7Chinese cup and saucer!

Adjectives joined by and

When more than one adjective occurs after a verb such as be (a linking verb), the second last adjective is normally connected to the last adjective by and:

Home was always a warm, welcoming place. Now it is sad, dark and cold.

And is less common when more than one adjective comes before the noun (e.g. a warm, welcoming place). However, we can use and when there are two or more adjectives of the same type, or when the adjectives refer to different parts of the same thing:

It was a blue and green cotton shirt.

Source: Cambridge Dictionary

Sense verbs

Today we are going to look at some sense verbs in English. This lesson will help you understand how to use these very common verbs correctly. 

Firstly let’s look at a list of sense verbswith examples. 

to feel : I feel sick! 

to look : Catherine looks nice in her new dress. 

to sound : Your voice sounds tired. 

to see : I can see a bird in that tree. 

to hear : We heard the football fans shouting. 

to taste : I think paella tastes nice. 

to smell : Roses smell beautiful. 

to watch : At the weekend we normally watch a film together. 

We can use sense verbs to describe something along with an adjective, for example: 

• This meal tastes delicious, thank you. 

• That noise sounds horrible. 

• The food smells bad. Throw it away! 

• She looked too tired to go out. 

We can also use sense verbs with nouns with the following structure – subject + sense verb + like + object – to say that something is similar to or sounds, smells, tastes, etc, like something else. 

• You look so like my father; it’s unbelievable! 

• This perfume smells like vanilla. 

• You look like a clown dressed in those clothes. 

• That sounds like water dripping on the floor. 

So there you have it. 

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As or Like?

As and like are prepositions or conjunctions. The prepositions as and like have different meanings. As + noun means ‘in the role of’, like + noun means ‘similar to’ or ‘in the same way as’.

Compare

As your father, I’ll help you as much as I can.	The speaker is the listener’s father.
Like your father, I’ll help you as much as I can.	The speaker is not the father but wishes to act in a similar way to the father.

We use like (but not as) to compare two things:

She’s got a headache like me.

Not: She’s got a headache as me.

Like the other students, he finds it a bit difficult to get to lectures early in the morning.

Not: As the other students, he finds it …

When we compare appearance or behaviour, we use like, not as:

That house looks like a castle.

Not: That house looks as a castle.

As is commonly used to talk about jobs:

He worked for a long time as a teacher in Africa.

Not: … like a teacher in Africa.

The conjunctions as and like have the same meaning when used in comparisons. Like is a little more informal.

Nobody understands him as I do.

Nobody understands him like I do.

From Cambridge Dictionary