adverbials of time
Adverbials of time
We use adverbials of time to say:
• when something happened:
I saw Mary yesterday.
She was born in 1978.
I will see you later.
There was a storm during the night.
• for how long :
We waited all day.
They have lived here since 2004.
We will be on holiday from July 1st until August 3rd.
• how often (frequency):
They usually watched television in the evening.
We sometimes went to work by car.
We often use a noun phrase as a time adverbial:
| yesterday | last week/month/year | one day/week/month | last Saturday |
| tomorrow | next week/month/year | the day after tomorrow | next Friday |
| today | this week/month/year | the day before yesterday | the other day/week/month |
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i am a new enterant in the british council's online english classes and enjoying it a lot .hope to learn lots of good english.
Hi Adam,
I would you like to know why I can't put the expression "during the summer" as category "how long" and the word "all night" as category "when". I didn't understand the difference between both words/expression.
Thank you,
Karol
Hi Karol,
'During the summer' is not a length of time, which is why it can't go in that category. 'All night' is not usually a specific time.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish
ıt's great
Hi
Would U please help
Are these sentences grammatically well formed?
Up until then I thought I was very clever, but......
Before that time I had not seen him .
Hi,
Yes, both of those sentences are well formed. It's more common to say something like 'I hadn't seen him before then' and 'Up till then I thought I was very clever', but there's nothing wrong with your sentences.
Best wishes,
Adam
The LearnEnglish Team
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This exercice wasn`t so hard . It was like a word game.
It wasn't so hard....
It was a rather easy exercise; it was still fun to do, though.