In five minute increments, when it’s past the hour (up to 30 minutes past) we say “past”. When it’s before the hour (after 30 minutes past) we say “to”. There are 60 minutes in an hour. 15 minutes is quarter of an hour, we say “quarter past” or “fifteen” or “quarter to” or “forty-five”.
Q. How do you write a quarter past 10?
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Table of Contents
- Q. How do you write a quarter past 10?
- Q. What’s the time it’s a quarter to 9?
- Q. What does a quarter after 8 mean?
- Q. What is a quarter to 1?
- Q. What is the meaning of quarter past 4?
- Q. What does 12 and a half mean?
- Q. Why do we say half past?
- Q. What does half six mean in England?
- Q. What does the term half ten mean?
- Q. What does half 8 mean in England?
- Q. What does half six mean?
- Q. What number is half a dozen?
- Q. What does half mean in time?
- Q. What is the difference between six and half a dozen?
- Q. What does 6 of one and half a dozen of the other mean?
- Q. Where did half a dozen come from?
- Q. What does 6 and 2/3s mean?
- 01:15 = It’s. a quarter past one. a quarter past seven.
- 07:25 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 02:45 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 03:00 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 10:40 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 08:05 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 03:55 = It’s. a quarter past one.
- 11:20 = It’s. a quarter past one.
Q. What’s the time it’s a quarter to 9?
What’s the time?
| A | B |
|---|---|
| It’s a quarter to seven. | 6:45 |
| It’s eight o’clock. | 8:00 |
| It’s a quarter past nine. | 9:15 |
| It’s a half past ten. | 10:30 |
Q. What does a quarter after 8 mean?
When you are telling the time, you use quarter to talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example, 8:15 is quarter after eight or quarter past eight and 8:45 is a quarter of or a quarter to nine.
Q. What is a quarter to 1?
a quarter of an hour=15. Therefore, quarter to one would be 15 minutes before one, or 12:45.
Q. What is the meaning of quarter past 4?
A quarter is 1/4 of a number. There are 60 minutes in an hour and 15 is one quarter or 1/4th of 60. So a quarter past 4 means it is 4:15, either am or pm depending on the time of day!
Q. What does 12 and a half mean?
It means that the girl is 12 and a half years old. So if she tells you she is 12 and a half in lets say, July… her birthday is in January.
Q. Why do we say half past?
The convention is that we express the time in terms of the hour that it’s closest to. “A quarter past nine”, not “three-quarters to ten”; but “twenty to ten”, not “forty past nine”. “Half past” is, of course, exactly in the middle. The convention is that we say “half past” rather than “half to”.
Q. What does half six mean in England?
> To agree with the other UK speakers – “half six” has the same meaning as. “half. > past six” and indicates 06:30 or 18:30.
Q. What does the term half ten mean?
In British English, the expression “half [hour]” is used colloquially to denote 30 minutes past the hour. For example, “half ten” means 10:30 (am or pm).
Q. What does half 8 mean in England?
In the UK and Ireland 8:30 can be half past eight or half eight. The half eight form is not used in other English-speaking countries. In some parts of the USA people say quarter after eight to mean 8:15, while elsewhere they say quarter past eight.
Q. What does half six mean?
“Half six” means “half past six” or 6:30. It does not mean “one half hour before 6:00PM”.
Q. What number is half a dozen?
six
Q. What does half mean in time?
Time and a half definition Time and a half refers to an increased rate of pay typically reserved for hours worked overtime or those that exceed the 40-hour work week.
Q. What is the difference between six and half a dozen?
It’s all the same; there’s no difference between them. This term dates from the early nineteenth century.
Q. What does 6 of one and half a dozen of the other mean?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The idiom “six of one, half a dozen of the other” means that two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it doesn’t matter which one we choose.
Q. Where did half a dozen come from?
The expression comes from the fact that half a dozen is an expression that means six. The idiom six of one, half a dozen of the other came into use in the 1700s. The earliest known use of the expression occurred in a journal kept by a British naval officer, Ralph Clark, in 1790.
Q. What does 6 and 2/3s mean?
A situation in which the difference between two options is negligible, irrelevant, or unimportant; a decision where each option each is as viable or acceptable as the other.
