AT or ON the weekend?
在周末是用「at」還是「on」呢？
The weekend is Saturday and Sunday
星期六+星期日=周末
Weekend is written as ONE word.
Weekend在書寫時寫作一個單詞。
You do NOT write it as two words (week end – incorrect)
不要寫成分開的兩個單詞
or with a dash/hyphen (week-end – incorrect)
也不要加連字符
Complete this sentence….
補全下面的句子
I play football ___ the weekend.
Do we say AT the weekend or ON the weekend?
我們是用「at」還是「on」周末呢？
What is the difference?
他們之間有什麼區別？
AT the weekend is used in British English
AT常用在英式英語中
ON the weekend is used in American English
ON常用在美式英語中
Both prepositions can be used in this sentence. It depends on where you are speaking or using English.
這兩個介詞都可以使用。取決於你說英語時在哪。
I play football AT the weekend. – British English
I play football ON the weekend. – American English
Note: We do NOT say in the weekend.
我們不說in the weekend
More example sentences: (Think about when the sentence would be used… in British or American English)
更多例句：（一邊聽錄音一邊想這是英式用法還是美式）
I think I』ll visit my parents at the weekend.
我想我周末會去看望我的父母
What do you usually do on the weekend?
你通常在周末做什麼？
I read an entire book on the weekend.
我在周末讀了一整本書。
I’m going to set aside an hour at the weekend to clean the bathroom.
我會在周末騰出一個小時來打掃浴室。
Every weekend
We do not use prepositions before it
我們不在every weekend前使用介詞
I play football every weekend.
我每周末都踢足球。
This is correct. We do Not say on/at every weekend. That is not correct.
上面這句話是正確的的。我們不說on/at every weekend。
And there is no -s at the end of weekend. We don’t say every weekends, no，we say every weekend in a singular form.
並且weekend尾部沒有s。我們不說every weekends。我們說every weekend 用它的單數形式。
That because after every we have a singular noun.
因為every後跟單數名詞。
And notice how we don’t say all the weekends as in some other languages, in English we say every weekend.
注意一下我們並不像其他語言那樣說all the weekends，在英語中我們只說every weekend。