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Telling Time

7:00

12:00

3:10

7:14

9:15

1:21

11:05

2:09

6:30

4:50

10:45

8:35

It's seven o'clock.

It's twelve o'clock.

It's three ten.

It's seven fourteen.

It's nine fifteen.

It's one twenty-one

It's eleven oh five.

It's two oh nine.

It's six thirty.

It's four fifty.

It's ten forty-five.

It's eight thirty-five.

It's seven p.m. / a.m.

It's noon / midnight.

It's ten (minutes) after three.

It's fourteen after seven.

It's (a) quarter after nine.

It's twenty-one minutes past one.

It's five after eleven.

It's nine minutes past two.

It's half past six.

It's ten minutes to five.

It's quarter to eleven.

It's twenty-five minutes to nine.

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written by Gayathri.Babu, January 26, 2008

hi,
When you can call eleven oh five as eleven after five,why can't you call two oh nine as two after nine

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written by Patrick, January 31, 2008

Hi! Where did you hear eleven oh five as eleven after five? I can't say I've ever heard that before. As far as I know, eleven oh five is 11:05 and that's all! Anyone else? Am I missing something here?

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written by gulshan, March 14, 2008

Hi,
Gulshan this side. I m working as a trainer. I am actually using this side only for my training of accent. I think its an awsum site. Well my confusion is that firstly can we call 12:00 as 12 a.m/p.m. and in some parts the word "THE" has been been pronounced has "THEE". What is the correct pronounciation? Please help.

Regards,
Gulshan Mallan.

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A few answers
written by Anne, June 08, 2008

Hi all, I am an English teacher and I can answer a few of your questions. The word 'the' can be pronounced in more than one way depending on if you are speaking in British or North American English. You can pronounce it as 'the' and 'tha'. Also eleven 0'five means five minutes after eleven, not eleven minutes after five. There are differences in time around the world as well, and in North America we refer to 12:00 as 12am for early morning until 11:59 noon time and 12pm for early afternoon until 11:59 at night.
Hope this helps a bit.

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written by a, June 28, 2008

The person that was asking about ¨eleven oh five ¨ meant ¨eleven of five¨. I´m looking to find an answer as to how this is interpreted.

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written by draegonfliye, September 11, 2008

hi "a", I lived in KY for some years and found there that an expression such a eleven of five means "it's eleven minutes out of 5 o'clock", which is to say it's eleven after five.
gulshan, the word THE is pronounced as "thee" when the word following the starts with a vowel... as in "thee" apple is red.

hope this helped clear up some confusion...

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written by sonia verma, September 22, 2008

hi this is sonia here. i would like to clear a few doubts to my friends. we pronounce thee when a word starts wid vowel e.g., in thee evening, thee indian express news paper. we prounce tha when a word starts wid consonants e.g.,in tha morning, tha times of india news paper. hope it would help.

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written by janice, October 30, 2008

Hello..everyone.. I'm an English teacher. I just would like to comment about the pronunciation of "the". It is pronounced "tha" if it is followed by a consonant sound (e.g. Tha bag, 'b' is a consonant)and "thee" if followed by a vowel sound (e.g. Thee airport, 'a' is a vowel).

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