It's (high) time you tidied up your room (usage)
Two questions regarding this structure of unreal past:
1) Is it used to mean (in a critical manner) what somebody should do? Or can it also be applied to mean what somebody should've done before?
2) Is it correct to also add "that" after "time"?
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1) Is it used to mean (in a critical manner) what somebody should do? Yes. Or can it also be applied to mean what somebody should've done before?
- 1) Is it used to mean (in a critical manner) what somebody should do?
- Yes.
- Or can it also be applied to mean what somebody should've done before?
- It's said in a context where you should have done something in the past.
- But because you didnt, it is telling you to do it now.
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1) Is it used to mean (in a critical manner) what somebody should do? Yes.
Or can it also be applied to mean what somebody should've done before? It's said in a context where you should have done something in the past. But because you didnt, it is telling you to do it now.
2) Is it correct to also add "that" after "time"? It's really a fixed expression, so
0EyeSeeYou It's (high) time (that) you tidied up your room.
Parents often require their kids to pick up their toys and hang up their clothes neatly in the places they belong.
If mom goes in to Billy's room and sees a royal mess, this is a common thing for her to say. She is annoyed, and Billy just wants to play games
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