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23 June 2005

British English(3), How to ask time?

Daily life is colorful that you even have many ways of asking the TIME.

Normally, as foreigners, we would say, do you know the time, please? Or, what time is it, please?

But, formally and very frequently, I think English people would say, Do you have the time, please? Or do you have the right time, please? Similarly, have you got the time?

"You don't have the right time, do you? " is another way of asking, which may confuse learners a bit, but sometimes, lanuage can't be explained. When you are in the same situation for a bit longer time, you will have the same feeling towards it and would express yourself in the same way.

In China, sometimes, people would ask, Do you have a Watch, please?(what time is it?) Have you got your watch with you? (Normally to your friends.)

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