The expression of the time point
1. All the time can be read directly in [hours + minutes]:
- 6:10 six ten
- 8:30 eight thirty
- zz2:40 two forty z24 and half hours if the time stated in 14 of the hour can be used z2.zz0 Minutes + past + hours]:
- 6:10 ten past six
- 4:20 twenty past four
- 10:25 twenty-five past ten
- 10:35 twenty-five to eleven
- 5:50 ten to six
- 9:49 eleven to ten
- 11:19 past :30 half past two
- 9:15 nine fifteen; fifteen past nine; a quarter past nine
- 3:45 three forty-five; fifteen to four; a quarter to four
- It s two./It s two o clock. It is two o'clock now.
- is now 12 o'clock at noon. It s (twelve) noon.
- is now midnight. It s (twelve) midnight.
- It s almost two. It s almost two.
- It s not quite two. It s not quite two.
- It s just after two.
- thirteen past six a.m. at 6:13 in the morning.
- four o clock p.m. four o'clock in the afternoon.
- now at nine forty-five! It s nine forty-five. =It s a quarter to ten.
- now two point seventeen! It s two seventeen. =It s seventeen past two.
- now three o'clock! It s three. =It s three o clock.
- now half past nine! It s nine thirty. =It s half past nine.
- now六点十Five points! It s six fifteen. =It s a quarter past six.
- now three to fifty! It s three fifty. =It s ten to four.
3. If the stated time is outside half an hour, you can use [(different) minutes + to + (below 1) Hour]:
4. If the stated time is exactly half an hour, you can use [half + hour]:
5. If the stated minute is related to 15, there are three ways of expression:
(15 minutes is also called a quarter of an hour: a quarter)
6. The whole point expression:
(in addition, noon and midnight in English can directly represent 12 o'clock in the day and night respectively)
7. Approximate time:
8. If you want to indicate that it is the morning, you can add a.m. after the time; in the same way, add p.m.
- Practice a practice -
expressions about century, year, month and day
1. Century:
① Use "definite article + zzz ordinal number + century" to express 18zzzin2 in the 17th century. The 17th century is pronounced: in the seventeenth century
② Use "definite article + hundred digits + s" to express
- Example: In the 17th century, writing: in the 1600s is pronounced: in the sixteen hundreds (note: in this case , The actual number of centuries expressed is the Arabic numeral itself plus one)
2. Year:
① Use "definite article + (hundreds of the century + ten years) + s" to express
- Example: In the 1930s Writing: in the 1930s pronounced as: in the thirties of the twentieth century in the nineteen thirties
② means the early, middle and late periods of a certain period. Early, mid- and late
- can be added after the definite article in the early 1920s in the early 1920s
- in the mid-1950s
3. Year, month and day:
(1) year
① When reading the year, it is generally divided into two units, the first two numbers are one, the last two numbers For one:
- 1949 Read as: nineteen forty-ninenineteen hundred and forty-nine
② If it is a three-digit number, read the first place first, and then read the last two numbers together:
- 253 Read as: two fifty-threetwo hundred and fifty- three
③ In addition:
- 2000 pronounced: two thousand
- 1902 pronounced: nineteen hundre d and twonineteen o two
④ If you want to use year, put year before the numeral:
- in the year two fifty-three BC In 253 BC
(2) month
is a proper noun, except for a few months Abbreviation:
- January Jan. January
- February Feb. February
- March Mar. March
- April Apr. April
- August Aug. August
- September Sept. September
- October Oct.November
- October Oct.November19z
- October Oct.
(Note: the dot after the abbreviated form cannot be omitted, because it is a symbol for the abbreviated form)
(3)Date:
Use ordinal numbers to express
- Example: October 1st
- Writing: October 1, October 1st, 1 October, 1st October, (the) 1st of October, etc., of which October can be written in the abbreviated form Oct.
- :October the first the first of October
(4) year month day
① month day year
- Example: January 17, 2002
- Writing: January 17(th), 2002 January seventeenth, 2002
- pronounced: January the sevenzteenth, two24zz0 and two24zz19 Day month year
- Example: January 17, 2002
- Writing: 17(th) January, 2002the seventeenth of January, 2002
- pronounced: the seventeenth of January, two thousand and two
4. Use of prepositions:
where is For the year or month, use the preposition in; if
is specific to a certain day, use the preposition on.
- She was born in 1989.
- She was born in August.
- She was born in August 1989.
- She was born on 2nd August, 1989.