How to ask the time.
These are some of the ways Americans ask and respond about time.
Exercise 1: Practice aloud the following questions and answers.
Exercise 2: Switch sides, repeat, try different times.
As with other American English subjects, there are more than several ways to ask the same question.
Q1. Can you tell me the time?
A. Yes, it’s two thirty in the morning.
Q2. Do you have the time?
A. It’s three pm.
Q3. Do you know the time?
A. It’s ten after eleven.
Q4. What is the time?
A. I have twenty to ten or nine forty.
Q5. What time have you got?
A. I’ve got five to five.
Q6. What time is it?
A. It’s three ten.
Q7. Are we out of time?
A. We’ve got fifteen minutes, almost out of time.
Q8. Do you know the time?
A. We are going to be ten minutes late.
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