Today i am going to Tell the time in English how to watch the time in English? It is not difficult to tell the time in English. You can announce the time in english at any time of the dawn to Dusk.
You may not know your numbers in English, but you need more than numbers to say time in English. If you want to ask Time in English and talk about clock in different life situation.
Continue reading to find out more by telling time in English using a 12-hour clock and a 24-hour clock, which are adjectives you should use, how you ask for time, how you give us time and how time is used to speak the day. We have also included a list of common phrases and phrases that use word 'time'.
It is a vocabulary to tell time in English
O'Clock, 'Previous' and 'Login'
Hours use phrase ‘hour’. Example: It is Four o'clock (called: ‘four oh clock’)
Minutes past one hour but before half an hour, use word 'past' before the last hour, or read full numbers.
The word 'hour' is an abbreviation for the word 'clock'. This is time division used to divide time by the position of sun and stars. We always say 'o' in a sentence like 'oh '. In English, we sometimes call zero '0', it is called 'oh', it is faster and easier than 'zero'.
There are three Needle in a clock.Big Needles which are black in color and it tells the "Minutes".
Small Needle which are also black in color and it tells the "Hour".
The clock has a needle long which is red in color and it rotates continuously. It tells us the seconds.
There are 60 minutes in an hour.
60 Seconds together make a minute.
There are 60 seconds in a minutes.
Examples using ‘past’:
If the time is four o' clock four minutes, we will say in English that "It's four minutes past four.
If the time is four o'clock five minutes, we will say in English that "It's five minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock ten minutes , we will say in English that "It's ten minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock nine minutes, we will say that "It's nine minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock fifteen minutes that "It's quarter past four.
If the time is four o' clock sixteen minutes that "It's sixteen minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock twenty that "It's twenty minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock twenty-five that "It's twenty-five minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock twenty-nine that " It's twenty-minutes past four.
If the time is four o' clock thirty that "It's half past four.
For more than half an hour, use the word ‘to’ before the next hour.
Examples using ‘to’:
If there are twenty-five minutes left in five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's twenty-five minutes to five.
If there are twenty minutes left in five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's twenty minutes to five.
If there are fifteen minutes left in five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's quarter to five.
If there are ten minutes left in five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's ten minutes to five.
If there are nine minutes left in five o' clock, we will say it in English that " It's nine minutes to five.
If there are five minutes left in five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's five minutes to five.
If there are five minutes left in five o' clock, we will say it in English that "It's four minutes to five.
If the time is five o'clock, we will say it in English that "It's five o' clock.
in English, we can use a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock.
A 12-hour clock divides the day into two 12-hour segments. One lasts from midnight till noon and the second half lasts from noon until midnight.
A.M for morning time to see the clock time. And use P.M Word for evening and night time.
A.M's English abbreviation is Ante Meridiem. And P.M's abbreviation is Post meridiem.
Telling the time in English
24-hour clock
If we use a 24-hour clock to tell time in English, there is no need to use 'am' and 'pm'.
If we exceed 12 noon the time does not return to 1, but instead passes to 13, which is usually written with an 'h' after the number, for example 13h.
In the morning there is also a single digit number used.
We used to say the word 'minutes' after ten o'clock if not five times. For example, we could say '17 minutes past 5' and '23 minutes before.
Suggestions for telling time in English
We often spend time ‘commenting’ and planning. For example, ‘I meet them at two o’clock’.
How to talk about the normal time of day
We use the pronoun ‘to’ at the normal time of day.
In the evening, we often say 'at night', for example 'ten o'clock at night' which means' 10 o'clock at night. We also say 'night' means midnight in general.
We can add the phrase ‘morning’ which means time before noon. If the time is very early, for example before 6am, we can say 'very early'. If the time is midnight, for example 1 in the morning until 3 in the morning, we can say ‘in the early days’.
‘Morning light’ means very early in the morning, as daylight begins.
It means ‘afternoon’ between noon and 6pm, and ‘evening’ just after their six-hour afternoon. The word 'night' comes into use late, after 9 p.m. People can use the word 'afternoon' in the summer because it stays brighter over time.
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