What's the DIFFERENCE between "ON TIME" and "IN TIME"? | Go Natural English

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Some confusing challenging topics in english now i know a lot of you, want to know more about

Prepositions so in this lesson we're. Gonna talk about

What's the difference between on time and in time

on

Versus in with this specific example of time so we often use the preposition on?

With time and we often use the preposition in with time so what's the difference anyway they seem so

Similar let me explain there is a slight difference

In time if you'll just imagine with, me the biggest difference

Is that in time makes me

Think of when you're hurrying

You're, already late you

Don't have very much hope of being on time because something already happens maybe

You, took, longer than normal in traffic

maybe there

Was some other delay maybe you saw a friend and you started talking and you know it was hard to say i have to go

Anyway, there's already been delays so you're already, worried you're already sweating you're already

walking faster trying to get to your appointment on time

In time is when

You're, watching baseball and

The the, baseball player the batter has just hit the ball and

The ball has been

caught and

The outfielder, is throwing it to first

Base but the batter is running running running running and he dives in and he just

Touches he just just touches that first

Base just in time in order to stay on first base and not get out

So in time is a bit more

It's a bit more dramatic

It makes me anxious to say, about am i going to be there in time

Am i going to get to the meeting in time to

Not be late to not miss the agenda am i going to get to the bus stop

In time to catch the bus

am i going to

Be at the dinner party in time to eat dinner or am i going to get there after

Everyone, else has eaten all the food already and i just get leftovers

That is in time now?

to, be fair

Enzyme and on time are often used for very similar situations but the biggest difference for me

Is that enzyme is a bit more stressful and there's this

span of time where like, you're already late but you're hurrying, and you're trying to get to a place in

time

to

Take advantage of an opportunity

Whereas on the other hand on time is a bit less

Stressful it's an agreed-upon time you know that to be to work on time you need to be there at

7:55 a.m.

you know that

The train is going to be on time?

Well if you live in japan i lived in japan for three years the train is always on time like

99% of the time it's always on schedule on time

So it's predictable it's scheduled it's on time, make sure you get to work on time or your

Boss might be upset now

Bonus there's a, bonus phrase there's a common

Idiom in the nick of time this goes back to in time not on time but in the nick of time is like

so close to the very last chance to get somewhere or to show up to be

Somewhere in time for something

Like just in the nick of time, means you

Had like a half a second where if you had not shown up at

That time you would have missed that thing let's say, you're going to a, baseball game and

You just arrived at the baseball game in the nick of time to see the most amazing

Play, it happened just like that very quickly and you just caught it in the nick of time

Let's say that you need to catch the bus and you see the bus coming and you're running to the bus stop

You're, you're hoping the bus, doesn't just run by

Well the bus driver sees you you see the bus driver and it's this wonderful moment, where he stops for you

And you catch the bus in the nick of time

You could, have just missed it but you caught that bus in the nick of time

Congratulations so i hope that this clarifies some of the difference between on time in time and then the most

Extreme in the nick of time so use these if you're, always running late or if you

Want to talk about how

You're, always on time, also it's a great way to use these let

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