8.4.4 Telling time
Use this domain for words related to telling time.
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(1) What words refer to telling time?
Example words: tell time, keep time, mark time, measure time, beat time, register the time, to chronicle
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(2) What is a written record of times and events called?
Example words: chronology, chronicle, record, history
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(3) What is a person called who keeps time?
Example words: timekeeper
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(4) What words indicate a particular time?
Example words: (In written English we use a semicolon to separate the hour from the minute: 5:00.)
It is now five <o'clock>.; It is five <a.m.>; It is five <p.m.>; It is noon <time>.; ten minutes <after> five.; <half> <past> five.; a <quarter> <to> five.; at ten <of> six.; a <quarter> <of> an hour.; in <half> an hour.; ten minutes <past> <the hour>.