Adverbials of distance and time

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Adverbials of distance

 

Distance

We use adverbials to show how far things are:
Birmingham is 250 kilometers from London.
Birmingham is 250 kilometers away from London.
It is 250 kilometers from Birmingham to London.
Sometimes we use a preposition at the end of a clause:
We were in London. Birmingham was 250 kilometers away.
Birmingham was 250 kilometers off.

Adverbials of time


We use adverbials of time to say:
• when something happened:
I saw Mary yesterday.
She was born in 1978.
I will see you later.
There was a storm during the night.
• for how long :
We waited all day.
They have lived here since 2004.
We will be on holiday from July 1st until August 3rd.
• how often (frequency):
They usually watched television in the evening.
We sometimes went to work by car.
We often use a noun phrase as a time adverbial:

yesterday
last week/month/year
one day/week/month
last Saturday
tomorrow
next week/month/year
the day after tomorrow
next Friday
today
this week/month/year
the day before yesterday
the other day/week/month

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