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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

What time is?

What time is it?
What is the time?
Do you have the time?

Dear teachers,

I am pretty sure the sentences above all have the same meaning.

But, I wonder if the following one can also be used.

What time is?

Please advise.

LCChang
  

Top answer

No. This sentence needs an object: it. Not only teachers may help you, mind!

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  • No.
  • This sentence needs an object: it.
  • Not only teachers may help you, mind!
  • I am not an English teacher myself.
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No. This sentence needs an object: it.

Not only teachers may help you, mind!
I am not an English teacher myself.

Inchoate
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I think you can say like this:

Pardon me, I have been wondering what time it is now? Can you assist me?

This might be too long though.

My question?

Is there any practical difference between the word "help" and "assist"?

Can you help me?

Can you assist me?
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Could you tell me what the time is?

Giving contribution to a fulfillment of an effort is what assist connotes.
You can not say assist when asking the time.
Help is more general and less formal than assist.

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For the “time “questions, these are the possibilities:

1) Could you please tell me the time?

2) Pardon me, what time do you have ?

3) Excuse me, can you tell me what time it is?

4) Excuse me, what time is it now?



I would differentiate “help” and “assist” with the following explanation.



“Assist” is a more formal way of sayi
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No. This sentence needs an object: it.
Actually, what it needs is a subject!

It is what time > What time is it?

This question has (as so many do) the subject after the verb. Is that clear now? (subject)
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