B01
core
Context
Time
Time Point / Time Span
When does it happen?
basic
Time adverbial
Temporal phrase
Betekenis
The time location of an event or state: a point, period, date, moment, duration, or time frame.
Zo herken je het
Find words that place the event on a timeline.
Voorbeelden
Woorden
today|yesterday|now|tomorrow|week|year
Zinnen
last night|in two hours|for three days
Voorbeeldzin
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.
Taaloverzicht
In je moedertaal
Nederlands
Aanwezigheid
strong
Belang
Time can be explicit with adverbials; fronted time triggers V2 inversion.
Morgen kom ik terug.
Tomorrow come I back.
In de taal die je leert
Engels
Aanwezigheid
strong
Moeilijkheidsgraad
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
Veelvoorkomend struikelpunt
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.