Time Point / Time Span
When does it happen?
Significato
The time location of an event or state: a point, period, date, moment, duration, or time frame.
Come riconoscerlo
Find words that place the event on a timeline.
Esempi
today|yesterday|now|tomorrow|week|year
last night|in two hours|for three days
We met yesterday.
Visual guide
Timeline
past ─ yesterday ─ now ─ tomorrow
▲
We met
Span: for three days
Frame: last night
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.
Panoramica per lingua
Nella tua lingua madre
Time can be shown by adverbs, dates, or prepositional phrases.
Ci siamo incontrati ieri.
We met yesterday.
Nella tua lingua di studio
In inglese gli eventi si collocano nel tempo con avverbi e preposizioni come at, on, in, for e since.
I arrived at six yesterday.
at six yesterday = punto/arco temporale dell'evento
Chi impara spesso confonde at/on/in, for/since e la posizione delle espressioni di tempo nella frase.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.