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Hans51 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

It's about time to go home. VS. It's time to go home.

It's about time to go home. VS. It's time to go home.


What is a difference between them?


And here in the sentence "about" is used as a preposition like 'think about it' or an adverb like 'about 30 %', 'about 100 people will come', etc?


What do you native English speakers think?


Thank you so much as usual!

  

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about here means approximately. Using 'about' makes the statement more tentative, less definite.

  • about here means approximately.
  • Using 'about' makes the statement more tentative, less definite.
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about here means approximately.


Using 'about' makes the statement more tentative, less definite.

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