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Viceidol Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

It's time for English class. ←Is this correct?

My point is that in the sentence "It's time for English class.", the pharse "English class" is a single countable noun, which means words like "an" or "the" or "our" should be added in front of "English class".

How come it doesn't add anything before it?

I really need someone's opinion to clear my doubt.

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Viceidol My point is that in the sentence " It's time for English class. ", the pharse phrase "English class" is a single countable noun, which means words like "an" or "the" or "our" should be added in front of "English class". If you do something in class (here 'class' is an uncountable noun), you do it during a lesson in school.

— Yoong Liat

  • Viceidol My point is that in the sentence " It's time for English class.
  • ", the pharse phrase "English class" is a single countable noun, which means words like "an" or "the" or "our" should be added in front of "English class".
  • If you do something in class (here 'class' is an uncountable noun), you do it during a lesson in school.
  • There's lots of reading in class.
  • (Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners) Hope I've answered your question clearly.
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ViceidolMy point is that in the sentence "It's time for English class.", the pharse phrase "English class" is a single countable noun, which means words like "an" or "the" or "our" should be added in front of "English class".

If you do somethin
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Viceidol
My point is that in the sentence "It's time for English class.", the pharse phrase "English class" is a single countable noun, which means words like "an" or "the" or "our" should be added in front of "English class".

If you do som
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Well I believe that English class is countable and therefore requires the article "the".

N. Jain
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"It's time for English class" is the way we say it. Unfortunately I can't tell you why!

It's just the same as saying "it's time for lunch/tea/dinner".
We would not say "it's time for THE lunch" (except in special circumstances when, for example, THE lunch has been booked in advance) but we might say "it's time for OUR lunch".

Martin
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