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Ask for help > Telling the time: (a) quarter past
Telling the time: (a) quarter past
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KimJ
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Telling the time: (a) quarter past
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Hi all,
I �m currently making a worksheet on telling the time and I would like your advice on this matter:
I think this is sentence is correct: It �s a quarter past three.
But on some website �s I came accros this: It �s quarter past three.
Is this also correct? Is there a difference between British E. and Am E. ?
Thanks for your advice!
Kim |
27 May 2015
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cunliffe
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Yes, me too.More likely to miss the article out, due to laziness. |
27 May 2015
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Peter Hardy
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Like Lynne, I often use the lazy option and drop the article. And as three and a half native speakers do it, it must be okay :-) |
27 May 2015
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fingerkiss
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You can use both of them, I would teach my students the use with definite article A, and later I will say them it´s possible to tell the time without the definite article. see ya! |
27 May 2015
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