Preposition: for

• meeting: Be punctual for meetings, shake hands on greeting and exchange business cards.

• appointment: Please be punctual for appointments as agents and proprietors will be waiting for you.

Modifies a noun

• airline: With the widest range of holidays available, all linked to the most punctual charter airline, your bound to find the perfect holiday.

• attendance: A likely candidate had to promise: To keep the rules of the Company, and to give regular and punctual attendance.

• arrival: A punctual arrival was made at the Moors Center in Danby, leaving me with 40 minutes to spare.

• payment: Punctual payment is of the essence of the contract.

• train: That means fast, punctual trains; a modernized efficient London Underground; cities not gummed up by congestion.

• service: A more punctual service for all users of the Brighton Main Line, with improved reliability.

Modifying Another Word

• always: It is good that most children at St Mary's are always punctual for school.

• very: The drivers were very punctual at both ends of our holiday.

• so: So punctual were we that we actually had time for a little terrace birdwatching before leaving the hotel at 8am.

• not: Schools should always let EMAS know if this does not happen and/or the bilingual assistant is not punctual.

• extremely: I was told you had to be extremely punctual - that that was an issue.

Used with adjective complement

• make: According to the plan, trains were to be made more punctual.