What do you mean by ante meridian and post meridian

[tufguy]

Tom: What do you mean by ante meridian and post meridian?
Jim: Ante meridian refers to day time while post meridian refers to evening or night time.

Are my sentences correct?

 

[Tdol]

Factually, they miss the point- 2pm is still well into daytime, but it is post meridiem. Noon and midnight are the key points on the twelve-hour clock.

 

[GoesStation]

If you fix the spelling they'll be grammatically correct. Tom should look elsewhere for information about telling time in English though.

 

[Tdol]

And I would hyphenate night-time.

 

[GoesStation]

And I would hyphenate night-time.

And write daytime as the single word that it is. Nighttime should really be a single word, too.

 

[Tdol]

Single word works.

 

[tufguy]

If you fix the spelling they'll be grammatically correct. Tom should look elsewhere for information about telling time in English though.

Tom: What do you mean by ante meridian and post meridian?
Jim: Ante meridian refers to daytime while post meridian refers to evening or nighttime.

 

[emsr2d2]

Tom: What do you mean by ante meridian and post meridian?
Jim: Ante meridian refers to daytime while post meridian refers to evening or nighttime.

Look again at post #2. Tdol showed you that "meridian" is wrong and showed you the correct spelling.

 

[GoesStation]

Jim should consult his dictionary to learn both how to spell meridiem and what it means.

 

[emsr2d2]

Jim should consult his dictionary to learn both how to spell meridien and what it means.

That's neither tufguy's spelling nor the correct spelling! ;-)

 

[GoesStation]

That's neither tufguy's spelling nor the correct spelling! ;-)

Pre-coffee posting strikes again.

 

[tufguy]

Look again at post #2. Tdol showed you that "meridian" is wrong and showed you the correct spelling.

Sorry.

Tom: What do you mean by ante meridiem and post meridiem?
Jim: Ante meridiem refers to daytime while post meridiem refers to evening or nighttime.

 

[GoesStation]

Sorry.

Tom: What do you mean by ante meridiem and post meridiem?
Jim: Ante meridiem refers to daytime while post meridiem refers to evening or nighttime.

The spelling and grammar are correct now, but Jim should still look up AM and PM in a dictionary. They don't mean what he thinks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Or, rather, "am" and "pm" do mean "ante meridiem" and post meridiem" but they don't just mean "daytime" and "nighttime".

 

[tufguy]

The spelling and grammar are correct now, but Jim should still look up AM and PM in a dictionary. They don't mean what he thinks.

So what do they mean?

 

[Rover_KE]

Have you not looked in a dictionary?

a.m., A.M., am, AM

abbreviation for ante meridiem (indicating the time period from midnight to midday)

Etymology: Latin: before noon

(Collins)

Now see if you can work out what pm means.