Direct expression of time method: it is to express time in the order of what time and what minute. (This is the simplest.) For example:

8:00--eight(o'clock) 5:20--five twenty

2 Add prepositions

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If the fraction is less than or equal to 30, it is expressed as past. p>

If the fraction is less than or equal to 30, it is expressed by past, with the structure "minute + past + the o'clock"; if the minute is greater than 30, it is expressed by to, with the structure "minute + to + the next one o'clock

For example:

12:05-- five past twelve

This is a preposition. twenty to nine

Warm tips: in the second expression, if the minute is 15, generally use a quarter instead of fifteen; if the minute is 30, generally use half instead of thirty. e.g.:

9:15--a

9:15--a quarter past nine

11:30--half past eleven Remember a few examples.

2:45--a quarter to three