All the expressions of "time" in English are here, so hurry up and learn!

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

3. If the stated time is outside half an hour, you can use [(different) minutes + to + (below 1) Hour]:

• 10:35 twenty-five to eleven
• 5:50 ten to six
• 9:49 eleven to ten

4. If the stated time is exactly half an hour, you can use [half + hour]:

• 11:19 past :30 half past two

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)

• 9:15 nine fifteen; fifteen past nine; a quarter past nine
• 3:45 three forty-five; fifteen to four; a quarter to four

6. The whole point expression:

• It s two./It s two o clock. It is two o'clock now.

(in addition, noon and midnight in English can directly represent 12 o'clock in the day and night respectively)

• is now 12 o'clock at noon. It s (twelve) noon.
• is now midnight. It s (twelve) midnight.

7. Approximate time:

• It s almost two. It s almost two.
• It s not quite two. It s not quite two.
• It s just after two.

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.

• thirteen past six a.m. at 6:13 in the morning.
• four o clock p.m. four o'clock in the afternoon.

- Practice a practice -

• 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.






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.