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Originally Posted by peter123 Hi there,
Are the following sentences correct?
I set my watch 5 minutes out.
I set my watch 5 minutes ahead.
I set my watch 5 minutes back.
I set my watch 5 minutes in advance of the time.
I set my watch 5 minutes behind the time.
Many thanks
pete |
All of them could work, if they happened to be the way we said it in English, Pete. I can well imagine some of them as direct translations.
The second and the third ones are the most natural but I'd say the most natural for this situation is
I set my watch/clock [___] minutes fast/slow.