Time before place

时间词语和处所词语同时作状语时，时间词语要在处所词语前。 When a sentence has both a time and a place, the time comes first: 我明天上午在学校学习 (I'll study at school tomorrow morning). English often puts the place first (“at school tomorrow”); Chinese does not.

Examples

• 我们七点在电影院外边见。

  Wǒmen qī diǎn zài diànyǐngyuàn wàibian jiàn.

  Let's meet outside the cinema at 7.

• 安妮下午在家里学中文。

  Ānnī xiàwǔ zài jiā li xué Zhōngwén.

  Annie studies Chinese at home in the afternoon.

• 陈天中明天中午在学校吃午饭。

  Chén Tiānzhōng míngtiān zhōngwǔ zài xuéxiào chī wǔfàn.

  Chen Tianzhong will have lunch at school tomorrow at noon.