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Tinanam0102 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

in time

Hi teachers,

1. Every novel needs to concern itself with some sense of thing happening in time

2. We can follow the action without being too distracted by the odd jumps backwards and forwards in time.

3. Once we have come to terms with that structure in time,

Do all 'in time' here mean 'eventually'?
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No. ) It means "within Einstein's fourth dimension", "temporally", literally "in" time itself.

  • No.
  • ) It means "within Einstein's fourth dimension", "temporally", literally "in" time itself.
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No. (I can't tell what #3 means.) It means "within Einstein's fourth dimension", "temporally", literally "in" time itself.
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tinanam0102Do all 'in time' here mean 'eventually'?
No.

All events in life occur in space and time.

Space is the three dimensions of location; time is just another dimension.
Sometimes in a novel, the time dimension is described by adverbs (yesterday, an hour ago, next week, May 6, 2004); otherwise it is estimated by a sequence of events,
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Hi AlpheccaStars, hi enoon,

There's a big difference in meaning. Thank you for your help.

Thanks

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