Writing Prompt ~ Sometimes, Sometime, Some Time
I sometimes enjoy to put my voice in action to check my English skills out in proof. I hope to be able to change my "lazy" to speak in my learning daily in quite some time. Because knowledge without practice is valueless. Sometimes, I find some learners that have too much grammar background but nothing related to speaking experiences in the target language. So, if you have some time to speak in English, I'd say: SPEAK! It's really important to do this activity quite often. And sometime in the future you'll notice that effort was completely worth!
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So interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! To sharing this blog and links as well.
Thanks for sharing the links, Daniel.
But, if you look them up in the online Longman dictionary, you'll find this: sometime also some time, which may lead to further confusion.
Thank you Sir for suggestion I would like to speak like this
That is really awesome Daniel :)
Keep it up :)
As far as I read on some brief explanations in some websites:
- SOMETIMES (adverb): Amounts to adverbs like "ocasionally" and "now and then";
- SOMETIME (adverb): It can be replaced by the adverb "someday", implying a vague time period in the future;
- SOME TIME: This case "some" works as an adjective, and the full expression can be used to describe an amount of time, and also features a fairly specific amount of time.
So, the authentic sources for these explanations are available to check out at:
http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/grammar/adjectives-and-adverbs/19...
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/sometimes-some-t...
http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/sometimeusage.htm
To me, "some time" is so tricky - can be so confusing - because it can mean “a fairly long period”, and it can also mean "sometime" (you don't know exactly when).
1. I can tell that Daniel has learned English for some time (for a fairly long time).
2. I may take a vacation some time/sometime (you don't know exactly when) in Summer.
Hope it helps!
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but, as far as I've understood according to the activity's explanation we use "sometimes" (=ocasionally) to refer to an unspecified time period and "some time" and "sometime" when we want to refer to a specified time period. These were the conclusions which I could come here. : )