at around?

[bieasy]

Hi,

Is the following passage correct?

"... so you will probably be back at around 05 PM"

 

[SoothingDave]

You don't need the "at."

 

[bieasy]

I don't know why it sounds strange to me :roll:

 

[Rover_KE]

You don't need the "at."

...and you don't need the '0'.

 

[emsr2d2]

The "at" is not wrong, we just wouldn't normally include it.

"So you'll be back around 5pm" is fine.

 

[bieasy]

o??

 

[Raymott]

o??

No, 0

 

[emsr2d2]

You don't need the zero before the five. We don't say at 05pm, we say 5pm. You would only use the zero if you were using the 24-hour clock and then 5pm wouldn't have a zero at the beginning, it would be 1700hrs.