In this case, the o' has a historical derivation, but speakers don't think of it as short for anything anymore. You can't replace it with of the. So this is a matter of etymology; it's not like "lots o' luck" where o' represents a reduced colloquial form of of. You'll have to learn o'clock as a single word.

2015年9月15日 · In order for us to help you, we need to know the context: what is the exact scenario you are trying to express? The phrases on time and in time are different from each other, and both are different from at the time and at a time.

2018年4月6日 · The concert will start tomorrow at 6:00 pm. Or The concert starts tomorrow at 6:00 pm.

Tell me please of the preposition "at" is optional in the following sentence. Yesterday I went to sleep (at) around 9 o'clock. I have heard a native speaker say it without at. Did he make a gra...

2015年3月26日 · 1:55 (o'clock) sharp 1:55 (o'clock) on the dot 10:23 (o'clock) sharp 10:23 (o'clock) on the dot Note I checked ten online English Dictionaries and only one gives an example of other than the top of the hour or the bottom of the hour. Is there any significance to this? Also, does using o'clock in any of the times phrases above change anything?

2016年12月19日 · There can be a huge difference between the two sentences, but your first sentence is not quite correct. The shop opens at 8:30am to 9:30am would usually be said as The shop opens between 8:30am and 9:30am if the speaker is not sure of the actual opening time. Otherwise only a single time is usually given for an opening time The shop opens at 8:30am. By 9:00am the shop is open. When speaking ...

2023年11月10日 · The author intends the meaning "Wake me at nine o'clock" (which a child would understand to mean "waking up later than normal" and has incorrectly assumed that this is what "at nine bells" means.

could you analyse parts of speech of " at around 8 AM / 8 o'clock "? We got these examples in this dictionary around /əˈraʊnd/ adverb We got home at around 8 o'clock. = (US) We got home around about 8 o'clock. [=it was approximately 8 o'clock when we got home] I would say, in the phrase " at around 8 AM / 8 o'clock " in " I go to work at around 8 AM / 8 o'clock ", …

2024年7月10日 · for a week is a period of time. We often use for and since when talking about time. for + period: a "period" is a duration of time - five minutes, two weeks, six years. For means "from the beginning of the period to the end of the period". since + point: a "point" is a precise moment in time - 9 o'clock, 1st January, Monday.

2015年10月19日 · For military time the 24 hour clock would use hrs for written communications as in, "The operation will begin at 1500 hrs." However, when speaking the hrs is not necessary. The Platoon Sergeant would say, "We move out at fifteen hundred; OPORD will be issued at oh four hundred with pre combat checks at thirteen thirty."