THE ART OF SPEAKING AMERICAN ENGLISH by Stephen Stratton

Author:Stephen Stratton [Stratton, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-10T18:30:00+00:00

A. The young man is in his early twenties.

B. The elderly man is in his mid seventies.

C. The company president is in his late forties.

D. The popular actress is in her early to mid fifties.

E. The well dressed gentleman is in his late fifties to early sixties.

ago; in; after that/later/following; before that/preceding

At first glance, the time words here might seem fairly easy to use, and they certainly are if you happen to grow up speaking English as your primary language. For those studying English as a second language, understanding what they mean often does not translate into correctly making use of them in conversational English. Read the example sentences, paying close attention to the direction in which the arrows are pointing in the accompanying diagrams.

In (A), preposition ago is used to denote a point of time in the past. In (B), preposition in is used to denote a point of time in the future.

A. I went to France a week ago.

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