sitifan
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2006
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- Taiwan
- Current Location
- Taiwan
The time of day
8.00 a.m. eight a.m. /eight o’clock in the morning
10.00 p.m. ten p.m. /ten o'clock in the evening.
7.30 half past seven/seven thirty
half seven (informal)
7.15 (a) quarter past seven/seven fifteen
7.45 (a) quarter to eight/seven forty five
9.20 twenty (minutes) past nine/nine twenty
9.55 five (minutes) to ten/ten fifty five
10.23 twenty-three minutes past ten/ten twenty-three
10.46 fourteen minutes to eleven/ten forty-six
16.08 sixteen oh eight
21.00 twenty-one (hundred) hours
(A Basic English Grammar, by John Eastwood and Ronald Mackin, page 143)
Does the quotation in red mean that 21.00 can read either "twenty-one hours" or "twenty-one hundred hours"?
8.00 a.m. eight a.m. /eight o’clock in the morning
10.00 p.m. ten p.m. /ten o'clock in the evening.
7.30 half past seven/seven thirty
half seven (informal)
7.15 (a) quarter past seven/seven fifteen
7.45 (a) quarter to eight/seven forty five
9.20 twenty (minutes) past nine/nine twenty
9.55 five (minutes) to ten/ten fifty five
10.23 twenty-three minutes past ten/ten twenty-three
10.46 fourteen minutes to eleven/ten forty-six
16.08 sixteen oh eight
21.00 twenty-one (hundred) hours
(A Basic English Grammar, by John Eastwood and Ronald Mackin, page 143)
Does the quotation in red mean that 21.00 can read either "twenty-one hours" or "twenty-one hundred hours"?
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