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Tell me about the last time.......    Tell me about the last time.......
                                                       You ate a really delicious
                 You were late to school
                                                                    meal.
                       Why did you late?                         What was it?

                                                             Where did you eat?





                                            Adverbs of Time






                 Adverbs of time are a number of words and phrases


                 that are often used to show when an action or situation

                 happened  in  the  past.  Here  are  some  of  the  most


                 common ones.





             Adverbs of Time: ago


             We use time reference + ago to show how far back in the


             past something happened:

                                                                                       four         two
             Examples:                                                                years         days


                    She left five minutes ago.
                                                                                three      ago             an

                    The plane landed an hour ago.                              months                     hour


                    My sister was born three months ago.                               five        a long
                                                                                     minutes        time
                    The cat died four years ago.




             Adverbs of Time: last


              We use last + time reference to mean the most recent or

              nearest to the present day time:






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