For questions about expressing time in English.
Questions tagged [time]
440 questions
334
votes
13 answers
Why 11 am + 1 hour == 12:00 pm?
One hour after 11:00 am is 12:00 pm. I find this very strange. Why isn't it 12:00 am?
More descriptively, I thought we can think of the am/pm part as a time unit representing a higher amount than the numerical unit. If so, it would represent 12…
Yuki Inoue
- 3,133
- 3
- 9
- 8
15
votes
5 answers
Would it be "went to sleep at one yesterday" or ”...today"?
My brother was saying that is grammatically correct to say he went to sleep at one today because it was after 12 o' clock, but I say it should be he went to sleep at one o'clock yesterday. Which one of us is correct?
Starfire
- 163
- 1
- 4
10
votes
9 answers
Am I telling the time correctly on the analog clock?
Am I telling the time correctly?
It's two past one (1:02)
It's five past one (1:05)
It's a quarter past one. (1:15)
It's twenty past one. (1:20)
It's twenty-five past one. (1:25)
It's twenty-six past one (1:26)
It's half past one (1:30)
It's…
neko777
- 183
- 2
- 9
10
votes
2 answers
Do I need to say “o’clock”?
Do I need to say “o’clock” after each time? Tell me, please, how to pronounce the following sentence:
From 9.00 to 10.00 - registration of conference participants
And how to say:
From 12.00 - to 14.00
Влад Глушко
- 123
- 1
- 5
7
votes
3 answers
"At" vs "by" in time-expressions
In Michael Swan's Practical English Usage I come across the sentences:
We can use the future perfect to say that something will be completed,
finished or achieved by a certain time.
and
The future progressive can be used to say that something…
Dmitrii Bundin
- 4,869
- 17
- 66
- 122
4
votes
3 answers
Past/after when talking about time
I'll talk to you tomorrow morning past 11.
I'll talk to you tomorrow morning after 11.
Do both of them mean the same? Are both grammatically correct?
lekon chekon
- 2,707
- 10
- 40
- 62
4
votes
4 answers
How to refer to particular years in a specific century in one expression?
If I need to mention the year and the century how do I say that in one sentence?
They moved abroad in the 70s in the twentieth century.
They have a collection of paintings painted in the 70s in the twentieth century.
Antonia A
- 2,031
- 1
- 13
- 31
3
votes
1 answer
"It __ a week since the exams began" (was, is, has been, had been)
It was a week since the exams began
a) It is a week
b) It has been a week
c) It had been a week
d) No improvement
Answer on a website cites that option A is right. I feel its wrong. What`s the correct option?
Shweta S
- 39
- 2
3
votes
3 answers
16:00 o'clock afternoon or 16:00 o'clock evening?
Should I refer to 16:00 o'clock as afternoon or as evening?
In winter, when the days are short, and it becomes dark already at this time already in many countries, and therefore it is not clear to me how people in the UK for example, where this…
Virtuous Legend
- 27,128
- 196
- 415
- 597
3
votes
2 answers
Should you add AM or PM after a 24 hour time?
Say you've written 16:00 PM. Is that correct? Is the PM necessary?
McOwen
- 193
- 3
- 3
- 8
2
votes
2 answers
How to say a time with seconds?
In terms of time with only hours and minutes, it is fine. However, I would like to know, how to say a time with seconds? Like 11:20:20 or 09:35:05.
Thanks for that~
Mamsds
2
votes
1 answer
Can 10pm be considered "Late evening"?
I'm answering a question about a text. In the text, it says:
The train left the station at 10:00PM
and, the question I must answer is
Did the train leave late in the evening?
I'm not sure about this. I'd say the train left early at night, but…
Daniel
- 123
- 4
2
votes
2 answers
Meaning: To This Day
I have a question about the phrase "to this day": (from Frederick the Great by Giles MacDonogh)
link
They started appearing even before his death on 17 August 1786, and they still crop up to this day.
Should "to this day" be read in the sense of…
meatie
- 7,585
- 19
- 81
- 151
2
votes
1 answer
Understanding Future-in-the-past time
I don't understand what does action period denote by future-in-the-past?
It denotes the action which referenced to the future, relative to current time moment, from the past, relative to the current time moment or It denotes the action which is…
Dmitrii Bundin
- 4,869
- 17
- 66
- 122
2
votes
3 answers
Which sentence sounds natural?
I have written two groups of similar sentences below, but I don’t know in each group which sentence is the most natural way of implying the matter in my question. I was wondering if someone could help me:
A)
- 1) It’s one year now that you…
A-friend
- 14,286
- 49
- 210
- 404