Why do we use "o" in telling the time, e.g. 9 o'clock? I looked it up in the dictionary but it did not say anything about the letter. o'clock adverb Used to specify the hour when telling the time. ‘the gates will open at eight o'clock’ What does the "o" stand for?

2018年3月20日 · Speaking both PM/AM and o'clock together is odd! It's 4 PM o'clock - no, no.... Now, it depends on the context. If someone is asking you now, obviously both of you know the part of the day or night. It makes no sense to add PM if the person is asking you in the afternoon. Yes, this is okay if you are teaching someone when to say PM/AM.

2019年5月13日 · Do I need to say “o’clock” after each time? Tell me, please, how to pronounce the following sentence: From 9.00 to 10.00 - registration of conference participants And how to say: From 12.00 ...

Time has passed / time has elapsed Five minutes passed before either of us said anything. past (except for The Past - meaning all time up until now) on the other hand is normally really a way of comparing two events, and generally means further than or later than. It's time for bed. It's past eight o'clock! The time now is half past three.

2020年8月15日 · Your sense of the meanings is right. "What did you do at 7 PM?" refers to a more or less exact time. "What were you doing at 7 PM?" means "What activity were you engaged in?". That can still mean exactly at 7 PM, but suggests that the activity extended before and after that time. Either question could be used in your computer crash example.

Here are two examples of context. Come at ten o'clock sharp. She said she was going to ring at nine a.m. sharp. Does it mean "exactly"?

This is a set phrase, so you should memorize it as a single vocabulary item. That said, you can break it into two pieces to understand it better: every hour means "each hour"; on the hour means "at the beginning of the hour". In other words, this refers to a time ending with o'clock or :00. When you put these two together, you get a phrase meaning "at the beginning of each hour".

Do we need "at" before "around 7 AM" as in "I go to work (at) around 7 AM"? We got these examples in this dictionary around /əˈraʊnd/ adverb We got home at around 8 o'clock. = (US) We go...

2015年11月18日 · The original expression is of the clock, progressively contracted to o' th' and finally to o'.

It's almost 12 o'clock. It's near 12 o'clock. There must be a little difference, but how different they are?