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No preposition before expressions of time beginning next, last, this, one,
every, each, some, any, all.
See you next Monday. —_- The meeting's this Thursday.
Come any day you like. | The party lasted all night.
Note also tomorrow morning, yesterday afternoon, etc.
(NOT omtomerrow morning etc)
In an informal style, we sometimes leave out on before the names of the
days of the week. This is very common in American English.
Why don't you come round (on) Monday evening?

We use ainstead of a preposition in three times a day, sixty miles an
hour, eighty pence a pound, and similar expressions.

We usually leave out atin (At) what time ... ?
What time does Granny's train arrive?

Expressions containing words like height, length, size, shape, age,
colour, volume, area are usually connected to the subject of the
sentence by the verb be, without a preposition.
What colour are her eyes?
He’s just the right height to be a policeman.
She’s the same age as me.
You're a very nice shape.
I'm the same weight as | was twenty years ago.
What shoe size are you?
We often leave out in (especially in spoken English) in the expressions
(in) the same way, (in) this way, (in) another way etc.
They plant corn the same way their ancestors used to, 500 years ago.

We do not use to before home.
I'm going home.
In American English, af can be left out before home.
ls anybody home ?

257 prepositions at the end of clauses
Prepositions often come at the ends of clauses in English. This happens
in several kinds of structure:

questions beginning what, who, where etc.
What are you looking at?
Who did you go with?
Where did you buy it from?