Time Point / Time Span
When does it happen?
Znaczenie
The time location of an event or state: a point, period, date, moment, duration, or time frame.
Jak to rozpoznać
Find words that place the event on a timeline.
Przykłady
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.
Widok językowy
W języku ojczystym
Time points and spans use adverbs or prepositional phrases with case.
Spotkamy się jutro.
We-will-meet ourselves tomorrow.
W języku nauki
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
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.