🖼️ It Is Half Past Eight In The Evening

Learn to talk about time and ask the time in English requires Real Player. On the hour Past / to the hour Prepositions What to say Work Time Writing the time Time Idioms Time 1 When it's "on the hour" we say "o'clock". But only when it's on the hour. Twelve o'clock Six o'clock One o'clock Seven o'clock Two o'clock Eight o'clock Three o'clock Nine o'clock Four o'clock Ten o'clock Five o'clock Eleven o'clock Because it can be difficult to say whether 12 o'clock is during the day or the night, we use two special terms. 0000 and 2400 = Twelve midnight or midnight 1200 = Twelve noon or noon Time 2 In five minute increments, when it's past the hour up to 30 minutes past we say "past". When it's before the hour after 30 minutes past we say "to". There are 60 minutes in an hour. 30 minutes is half an hour, we say "half past" or "thirty". 15 minutes is quarter of an hour, we say "quarter past" or "fifteen" or "quarter to" or "forty-five". At other "odd" times, when we want to be accurate, we add the word "minutes"- It's twenty-eight minutes to twelve. It's one minute past three. If you want to avoid trying to remember when to use "minutes" and when not to just say "nearly" or "just turned". It's just turned half past eleven. It's nearly three o'clock. Prepositions used with time At a point in time In a length of time "When shall we meet? "Let's meet at "It's when will you be ready? "I'll see you in an hour, at about Naturally speaking Digital clocks often show the time this way using the 24-hour-clock, only the police and the military actually speak using the 24 hour clock- If it's before noon we tend to say "in the morning". If it's after noon we say "in the afternoon". If it's late we say "at night". It's seven o'clock in the morning. It's two o'clock in the afternoon. It's ten o'clock at night 15 minutes past the hour is quarter past It's quarter past seven in the morning. It's quarter past two in the afternoon. It's quarter past ten at night. 30 minutes past the hour is half past It's half past seven in the morning. It's half past two in the afternoon. It's half past ten at night. 45 minutes past the hour is quarter to It's quarter to eight in the morning. It's quarter to three in the afternoon. It's quarter to eleven at night. How to ask the time in English. Work time There are some common words and phrases that we use to describe the hours we work. At work in the UK we talk about starting time and leaving time. 9-to-5 is a phrase used to describe a conventional and possibly tedious job. Negatively used, it connotes a tedious or unremarkable occupation, the idea being that, because the job is so boring, the workplace shuts down outside of required hours. The phrase also indicates that a person is an employee, usually in a large company, rather than self-employed. More neutrally, it connotes a job with stable hours and low career risk, but still a position of subordinate employment. Overtime is the time we work in addition to what is normal. Overtime is either paid, or unpaid. Full time full-time is the term we use to describe the whole of someone's available working time, typically 40 hours in a week, but the European Union's working time directive imposes a 48 hour maximum working week that applies to every member state except here in the United Kingdom which has an opt-out meaning that UK-based employees may work longer than 48 hours if they wish, but they cannot be forced to do so. Part time part-time is the term we use to describe employment with fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Time off is the term we use to describe time for rest or recreation away from one's usual work or studies. Time in lieu refers to taking time off instead of, or in addition to, receiving pay for overtime worked or working on public or bank holidays. Check these time idioms too. Writing the time morning 0001 - 1159 - stands for Ante Meridiem the time between midnight and noon 0001 hrs - 1200 noon or midday 1200 - stands for Post Meridian after noon 1201 - 2400 hrs afternoon 1201 - 1800 evening 1801 - 2200 night 2201 - 2400 midnight 2400 / 0000 There are 24 hours in a day, but only the military, police and computer programmers use the 24-hour clock. When writing or speaking generally we tend to use the 12-hour clock. The 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called Latin "ante meridiem" English "before mid day" and Latin "post meridiem" English "after mid day". The way people write the time varies. I prefer and Choose from the following styles or use what your English teacher tells you to and stick to it- am pm AM PM Some people use a dot as the separator pm. Some people use a colon as the separator 230 pm. The colon is usually used with the 24-hour clock 1430. When you are writing the time decide whether to write it using numerals or words, and stick to that.

Translationsin context of "Half past eight" in English-Portuguese from Reverso Context: The appointment was for half past eight. ^{1 Hi, Here are the last paragraph of chapter two, Lady Chatterley's Lover "Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact. She and Clifford lived in their ideas and his books. She entertained. . .there were always people in the house. Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven." For "half past eight instead of half past seven", the Chinese version is "after 7 o'clock, it's 8 o'clock. After 8 o'clock,what time is it?" But I feel it's not that complicated. It just means "half past eight replacing half past seven", which describes how time goes. Am I right? Thank you in advance 2 But I feel it's not that complicated. It just means "half past eight replacing half past seven", which describes how time goes. Am I right? Yes. 4 You cannot understand half past eight instead of half past seven. unless i you know when Lady Chatterley's Lover was written and iithe variability of sunrise and sunset in the UK. iii When British Summer Time was instigated i Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928. ii Today, in London, the sun rose at 0800 GMT and will set at 1531 GMT. In June the sun will rise at 0440 and set at 2121 iii Before 1916, the time in Great Britain was Greenwich Mean Time for all of the year. In 1916, in an attempt to obtain more benefit from natural daylight during the working day, the government ordered that, each year, all clocks were to be set forward by one hour when summer came, and would revert to GMT in the late autumn. This new time is known as British Summer Time. The process of doing this is called "putting the clocks on.", and we say, "The clocks go on in March." This is what Lawrence is referring to, and he uses a small pun. Time went on = time passed relentlessly. Time went on = the clocks were advanced by an hour. Hence the time was 0830 rather than 0730. This is also seen as an inevitable event that marks the passage of the year/time. 5 You cannot understand half past eight instead of half past seven. unless i you know when Lady Chatterley's Lover was written and iithe variability of sunrise and sunset in the UK. iii When British Summer Time was instigated The process of doing this is called "putting the clocks on.", and we say, "The clocks go on in March." This is what Lawrence is referring to, and he uses a small pun. Time went on = time passed relentlessly. Time went on = the clocks were advanced by an hour. Hence the time was 0830 rather than 0730. This is also seen as an inevitable event that marks the passage of the year/time. It would seem that you also can't understand it unless you know that BE uses the expression "putting the clocks on" for what we'd call "moving the clocks ahead". We have what we call "daylight savings time" here as well, but we'd never refer to it as "putting the clocks on" or say "the clocks go on in March." Who knows what else may have escaped me back when I read Lady Chatterly's Lover?} Vieleübersetzte Beispielsätze mit "half past eight" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. dja65/iStock/Getty Images Plus by Liz Walter Talking about time is a very basic skill, but one that can often cause problems, especially if your main language thinks about time in a different way. Firstly, if you want to know the time, what question do you need to ask? Well, if you are sure that the person you are asking knows the answer, you can simply say What time is it? or What’s the time? this is less common in US English. However, if you are not sure if they know, for example if you want to ask a stranger on a train or in the street, you can say Excuse me, do you have the time, please? or in UK English Have you got the time, please? There are of course, various methods of telling the time the 24-hour clock, the 12-hour clock and the old-fashioned way, using a round clock with hands. In general, we only tend to use the 24-hour clock system for timetables UK / schedules US. For instance, we can say that a train leaves at 2015 twenty fifteen. In the US, use of the 24-hour clock even for timetables is not common. In more general speech, many of us move between a 12-hour clock and the more old-fashioned system we use for clocks with hands. With both systems, we say o’clock for whole hours 300 three o’clock. With the 12-hour clock, we may say the numbers for other times 323 three twenty-three / 745 seven forty-five. However, it is also common to convert 12-hour times into their old-fashioned equivalents, especially for units of 15 or 30 minutes, for example saying half past five for 530 half past is much less common in US English. Be aware that – unlike some other languages such as German – we relate half hours to the hour before, not the next hour. There are some other differences between UK and US English. For instance, for 415, both say four fifteen; both could also say a quarter past four but this is less common for Americans, and Americans more frequently say a quarter after four. Just to make things more complicated, for 845, both can say eight forty-five or a quarter to nine; Americans can also say a quarter of nine, but this is less common. For times between one and twenty-nine minutes after the hour, UK English uses past and US English after although past is also sometimes used in US English. So 520 is five twenty UK and US, twenty past five mostly UK or twenty after five US. And for times between thirty-one and fifty-nine minutes after the hour, UK and US English use to and US English sometimes uses of. So 740 is seven forty or twenty to eight UK and US, or twenty of eight US. In formal contexts, we use and to specify whether a time is before or after midday mostly UK / noon mostly US 400 four note that you shouldn’t say o’clock’ with these abbreviations. In more informal speech, we say, four o’clock in the morning/afternoon, seven o’clock in the evening or eleven thirty at night. And while we’re on the subject of time, did you know that time’ is the most commonly used noun in English? Next month I’ll be looking at some common phrases containing this word. . 400 34 462 119 407 92 389 488

it is half past eight in the evening