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Things you can Do with time. The word time collocades with a number of
different words and phrases in English. By the end of this lesson, you'll
have a clear idea about how to use time. So let's get the ball
rolling. The word time itself is both accountable and uncountable noun. When the
word time is used to talk about experience or a situation, it's accountable noun.
You can say things like a time or the time or one time.
For example, there was a time when most people didn't have a mobile phone.
Do you remember the time we went to Miami? It was a lot
of fun. I remember one time we went to a concert in Central Park
that was awesome. On the other hand, when the word time means clock
time, it's not countable. You can say things like sometime, anytime,
or a lot of time. Here are some examples. If you want to
have a meeting this week, I only have time on Friday morning. Do
you have any time to talk this afternoon. I have a lot of free
time next week. By the way, when you want to know the current
time, you can ask someone what time is it? A more polite way
to ask a stranger would be something like this, excuse me, do you
have the time the time? This phrase the time means the current time.
Do you have the time? You can also ask someone if they have time
to do something. The grammar pattern is have time followed by a two verb
you know, the infinitive. Here are some examples. Do you have time
to finish this report? Do you have time to help me clean the garage?
You can also have time for something after four. You can use a
noun or a gerrand. For example, I didn't have time for lunch today.
During our trip to New York City, we had time for visiting everywhere
we wanted to go. When you need someone to do something right now,
you can ask them like this, do you have time now or do you
have any time now? So when you ask someone if they have time,
you want to know if the person has enough time in their schedule in order
to do something. And when you ask someone if they have the time,
you're asking for the current time. You can also use spend and take with
the word time time. When we use spend time, we usually put the
person using the time as the subject of the sentence. In other words,
the subject of spend time is a person. For example, I spend so
much time working on that marketing report. Jen spends a lot of time scrolling
through Instagram. Do you spend time with your family on the holidays? Spend
time with your family. That's a man who doesn't spend time with this family
can never be a real man. On the other hand, when we use
take time, the subject of the sentence is usually it as you know,
it is used as the subject of the sentence when we talk about time,
it's five o'clock, it's Monday. Here are some examples. It took so
much time to work on that marketing report. It takes time for Jen to
scroll through Instagram. It takes no time at all to make breakfast. So
let's compare, I spent so much time working on that marketing report. I
spent time. It took so much time to work on that marketing report.
It took time, so I spent time. It took time. You can
also make time to do something, which means to arrange your schedule in order
to do that thing. For example, please make time to study English every
day. I make time to exercise in the morning. And with the same
meaning, you can also make time for something or make time for someone.
For example, I asked my Japanese language teacher if she could make time for
me on Saturday for a lesson. Jerry said he makes time for meditation every
morning. And finally, you can kill time. Don't worry. Killing time
isn't a crime. When you kill time, you do something to make time
seem to pass quickly, especially when you're waiting for something else. Here are
some examples. I got to the airport early, so I killed time at
the bookshop. We killed time before the meeting, having coffee and donuts and
chatting. Keep in mind, the best way to remember this and any vocabulary
is to take the word or phrase write it in a sentence that's true for
you or true in your world and then memorize your sentences. Well that's it
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