Electricity goes off

[tufguy]

"Electricity has come back on".

"Electricity comes back on after five minutes every day".

"Electricity has gone off for five minutes".

"Electricity goes off everyday".

Please check.

 

[emsr2d2]

Do you recall that in many of your recent posts, I have reminded you that you need to work on your use of articles? Can you see where an article should go in every one of your sentences?

 

[tufguy]

Correction for post#1.

"The electricity has come back on".

"The electricity comes back on after five minutes every day".

"The electricity has gone off for five minutes".

"The electricity goes off every day".

Please check.

 

[emsr2d2]

Congratulations, tufguy. You have written a completely correct post! It is correctly capitalised, punctuated and all of your sentences are grammatically correct. That's the kind of post we would like to see from you all the time.
The only amendment I would suggest is that the third sentence is more likely to be seen as "The electricity has been off for five minutes" or "The electricity went off for five minutes".

 

[Winwin2011]

"The electricity has been off for five minutes" or "The electricity went off for five minutes".

Is it correct to say "The electricity was off for five minutes"?

 

[tufguy]

"The electricity went off at 12 PM and it came back on at 1 PM. It remained on for half an hour and went off again at 1:30 PM".

Please check.

 

[GoesStation]

You don't need it in the first sentence. Other than that, the sentences are fine.

 

[emsr2d2]

You don't need it in the first sentence. Other than that, the sentences are fine.

It's optional but it's not wrong to include it.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

At the risk of confusing things, I've also heard the word 'out' used to mean that there was no electricity because the supply was interrupted, as opposed to merely being switched off for some reason.

'The electricity was out today for a few minutes; then it came back on.'

 

[tufguy]

Would it be correct as well to say "The electrity went off at 12 PM remained off for half an hour and came back on at 12:30 PM".

Can "out" be used in place of "off"?

 

[J&K Tutoring]

"The electricity went off at 12 PM remained off for half an hour and came back on at 12:30 PM".

Okay, but redundant or not correctly punctuated.

1. "The electricity went off at 12 PM and came back on at 12:30 PM". OR
2. "The electricity went off at 12 PM and remained off for half an hour."

Most people can do the arithmetic.

Your sentence should be punctuated as: "The electricity went off at 12 PM, remained off for half an hour, and came back on at 12:30 PM".