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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

High time

Is this sentence correct? And how about "high time"?
"You’d better drive a little bit fast, or you won’t arrive at high time".

Thanks

Anon.
  

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Hi, Is this sentence correct? And how about " high time "? "You’d better drive a little bit fast, or you won’t arrive at high time".

— Clive

  • Hi, Is this sentence correct?
  • And how about " high time "?
  • "You’d better drive a little bit fast, or you won’t arrive at high time".
  • What do you mean?
  • I don't think you understand 'high time'.
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Hi,

Is this sentence correct? And how about "high time"?
"You’d better drive a little bit fast, or you won’t arrive at high time".
What do you mean?
I don't think you understand 'high time'. We use it to mean that you need to do something now, that you have almost waited too long to do it.

eg The exam is next Monday. It's high time that you started to
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Hi, Clive

As I could see I really didn't know the exact meaning of "high time". So taking a look at your example I understood it as: "being vital/indispensable" . Correct?

Well, I took a look at my dictionary, but I couldn't find what I want to say in English. This is my intention:

"You'd better drive a little bit fast, or you won't arrive at th
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Anonymous"You'd better drive a little bit fast, or you won't arrive at the fixed time/hour."
I'd say you should use "on time":
"You'd better drive a little bit faster, or you won't arrive on time."
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