B01
core
Context
Time
Time Point / Time Span
When does it happen?
basic
Time adverbial
Temporal phrase
المعنى
The time location of an event or state: a point, period, date, moment, duration, or time frame.
كيفية التعرّف عليه
Find words that place the event on a timeline.
أمثلة
كلمات
today|yesterday|now|tomorrow|week|year
عبارات
last night|in two hours|for three days
جملة
We met yesterday.
Visual guide
Basic shape
Timeline
past ─ yesterday ─ now ─ tomorrow
▲
We met
Span: for three days
Frame: last night
Compare shape
Time can be a: POINT: yesterday / now SPAN: for three days OFFSET: in two hours FRAME: last night Forms may be adverb, case, preposition, particle, tense.
منظور اللغة
في اللغة الأم
العربية
درجة الحضور
strong
الأهمية
Time can be stated with adverbs, prepositional phrases, or inferred from verb form and context.
سأزورك غدًا.
I will visit you tomorrow.
في لغة التعلم
الإنجليزية
درجة الحضور
strong
الصعوبة
English uses time adverbs and prepositions such as at, on, in, for, and since to locate events in time.
I arrived at six yesterday.
at six yesterday = time point/span
تحدٍّ شائع في التعلّم
Learners often mix up at/on/in, for/since, and word order of time expressions.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.