Is it acceptable to use the underlined ‘about,’ ‘half an,’ and ‘past’ in my sentence below?
About mid-morning / Half an hour before 9 a.m. / Past 8 a.m., Jason performed an acoustic song on stage.
m. m. These expressions seem unnatural to me.
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
Half an hour before 9 a.m. / Past 8 a.m. These expressions seem unnatural to me.
And I don't consider either time to be mid-morning.