In this Granma refresh, we will quickly look at how to ask or tell of the time very useful and to have
the ability to do so, to tell the time or to ask the time.
Very simple.
The question for this will be what time is it?
You can say what time is it?
Or more casual.
You can say, what's the time?
It is a little bit more informal.
And what's the time?
What time is it?
Both acceptable ways.
To answer that, you just respond with it is attracted to it.
So what time is it?
It's 11 a.m. and when you have those.
Even numbers, not even numbers, those numbers that are ending in just 11 or 12 or one and then zero
zero right on time, you can add or clock if you want or you don't have to.
So that first example, what time is it?
It's 11.
You can stop there.
That's fine.
Or you can respond by saying it's 11 o'clock.
Either one is fine.
And again, you can ask what time is it or like our second example, it can be what's the time?
And your answer, it is or it's 17, the three of you can use those phrases from the vocabulary that
we learned in this section and use those to give your answers.
In this grammar refresh, we will be looking at how to use certain prepositions when talking about times
or times of the day, the first one is we're going to use the preposition at 80 at when stating the
time of a specific event.
So when we're stating the time of a specific event or examples, the first one.
Are we meeting at five o'clock today?
This is a specific time of an event we use at are we meeting at five o'clock or Jane is leaving at twenty
to seven.
So this is we're using at the time of a specific event.
The next one we're going to use the preposition in for periods of the day, OK, except.
When we're talking about night or night, we switch back to act.
So let's look at our examples to see how this works.
The first one, I'm not going to do laundry in the morning.
And so in the morning only is a period of the day.
But we're using it.
I'm not going to do laundry in the morning.
The next example will probably meet up sometime in the afternoon again the afternoon part of the day.
But we're using in.
What do you do in the evenings?
So in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evenings.
The last example, though, is where we change it.
Dave works on his project at night.
At night.
Or at night.
They worked at his project at night and generally at nighttime it were at night, but again, the main
thing here is to notice you're not using in it's not in night at.
In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night.