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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffli" data-source="post: 11929253" data-attributes="member: 382922"><p><strong>Special grammar</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><u>Special grammar</u></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's time + past tense </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's about time + past tense</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's high time + past tense</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Even though we use past tense here we are not talking about a past time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">We are using past tense because it is the subjunctive form of the verb.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ex :</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">You are chating with someone at midnight and it's getting late. So you want</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">to go to bed. So you can say,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's time I went to bed. (This suggests that you should already have gone to</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">bed some time earlier.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">To emaphasize the meaning you can say, "It's high time I went to bed." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">If we say, "It's about time I went to bed." we mean it's the approximately</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="font-size: 15px">right time(to go to sleep). </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

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