Sometime
sometime vs some time
which is correct sometime or sometimes?
Is some time correct?
What does give it some time mean?
What does sometime next week mean?
Is it sometime or some time?
What is the difference between any time and anytime
How can I figure out when to use some time, sometime, or sometimes ...
Sometime, Sometimes, and Some Time - Everything After Z
Avoid sometime vs some time vs sometimes confusion
sometime in a sentence
it's been some time
sometime in a sentence
give me some time
difference between sometime and sometimes
some time in the future
sometime in the future
some time tonight
sometime tonight
require some time
everybody's got to learn sometimes
everybody's got to learn sometime
Sometime means “at some point.”
As an adjective, sometime also means “former.”
Some time means “a period of time”—usually a long period of time.
Sometimes means “occasionally.”
There are two ways to use sometime as one word.
What's the differnce?
You can use the space, or lack of a space, between some and time to remember the difference between sometime and some time.
While they appear very similar, sometime, sometimes, and some time have slightly different meanings.
Sometime means 'at an unknown or undecided time in the future or the past': Why don't you come over and have dinner with us sometime? (at an undecided time in the future) I knew I had met her sometime, but I couldn't remember when.
you need to be careful when you use them.
Would I say “I can sometimes…” or “I sometimes can…”
Definition of sometimes
: at times : now and then : occasionally
: sometime
We may say unto you, as Tertullian said sometime unto the heathens.
‘you must come and have supper sometime’
‘sometime after six everybody left’
‘I guess this gives me an actual reason to go to Wigan sometime soon…’
‘I think there may be a cinema trip to Manchester sometime in my future…’
‘However, by the time the bank sells shares to international investors sometime next year, the price tag could rise much higher.’
‘McConnell's hope is that sometime in the future, games between Celtic and Rangers will be remembered for the football and not for the hate.’
‘I will improve it sometime in the future… when I get a little more time.’
‘A Bill is expected to be brought to the House sometime next year.’
‘I read a depressing account of it in The Guardian sometime back.’
‘However, sometime during the next few decades, though one does not know when, there was a sea change in peasants' attitude.’
‘I first came to Dublin via Belfast sometime in the early 1970s.’
‘Let's hope they manage to get to the US at some stage, but more importantly get to the UK sometime soon…’
‘This morning it announced plans to return £65m to investors sometime in the first six months of 2003.’
‘You'll have to wait until sometime in 2004 to see it, I'm afraid.’
‘More specifically, she would want to get into writing non-fiction sometime later and even make a movie or at least script one.’
‘Afterwards they went upstairs to use Holly's computer and the two girls left Red House Gardens sometime after 5.35 pm.’
‘It's rumoured the term originated in Vancouver sometime last decade, but it wasn't exactly meant to be endearing.’
‘Send your estimates here, and I'll post them sometime in the next few days.’
‘James, who is based in NYC, built a house in Galway sometime ago and spends as much time possible there, where he has a number of horses.’
‘After sometime I felt homesick and took a ten-day break from there.’
‘It is expected to reach hurricane strength in the next 24 hours, and then smack into Nicaragua sometime on Sunday.’
‘I have no doubt that John will settle into his new position with ease and prepare for when he surely will get the job on a permanent basis sometime in the new year.’
‘sometimes I want to do things on my own’
‘It almost looks as though the slicer is using a scythe rather than a club sometimes.’
‘I do eat a lot of Quorn and beans and spinach and eggs, but sometimes it is hard to eat a balanced diet.’
‘There must have been a side to him that sometimes got very down, but I never saw that.’
‘The way he acts sometimes, one wonders if he has had any experience of a real lady.’
‘In the evening they are full but sometimes during the day there are slots to fill.’
‘He acknowledges that sometimes art simply holds up a mirror to the society it is born from.’
‘Do you think that sometimes the attitudes of a small town can fuel talent as well as suppress it?’
‘Yet he could be so affected by his job that he was sometimes unable to speak before an execution.’
‘Men were sometimes summoned during the night and they took it in turns to work on Sundays.’
‘The solutions are sometimes not what we would like, but there is always a way ahead.’
‘Every job is a stressful period for a lot of people and there are still sometimes disputes.’
‘It can also sometimes be a bit difficult to attract the attention of the staff in the lounge bar.’
‘He has discovered that life in Bolton can sometimes be awkward as a wheelchair user.’
‘I sometimes still hear the shouts but on the whole the fans seem happy enough this year.’
‘It can seem impossible to get a handle on this vast and sometimes unforgiving region.’
‘During filming I would sometimes beg the camera crew to tell us what was going on in a scene.’
‘From the cradle to the grave it is a passion that is eternal, even if it is sometimes infernal.’
‘As he says, sometimes the only way to get value for your licence fee is to be an aberrant decoder.’
‘Getting up early is not my natural inclination but does pay off sometimes for the light.’
‘The game of football is a strange one, sometimes you don't play well and you still get a win.’
Slips for the letter “G” were nearly burned with somebody’s trash. All of the entries for the letter “H” somehow turned up in Italy.
Sometime in the 13th century, however, “an eke-name” was mistakenly interpreted as “a neke-name,” and the N permanently jumped across from the indefinite article an to the verb eke. The same error—known linguistically as “rebracketing” or “junctural metanalysis”—is responsible for nadders, numpires, and naprons all losing their initial Ns in the Middle English period.
Oddly, sneeze was spelled with an F and not an S, fneze, in Middle English, which gives weight to the theory that it was probably originally coined onomatopoeically. At least one explanation of why the letter changed suggests that this F inadvertently became an S sometime in the 15th century due to continual misreadings of the long lowercase f as the old-fashioned long S character, ſ.
There's some cake in the kitchen if you'd like it.
Here's some news you might be interested in.
We've been having some problems with our TV over the last few weeks.
Could you give me some idea of when the construction work will finish?
I've got to do some more work before I can go out.
I've just had some chocolate.
Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.
I need to get some fresh air to clear my head .
Steven gave me some good advice.
We had some friends round for dinner on Saturday.
It'll be some time before we meet again.
It was some years later when they next met.
We discussed the problem at some length.
Some lucky person will win more than $1,000,000 in the competition.
Some idiot's locked the door!
There must be some way you can relieve the pain.
Some people just don't know when to shut up.
Some help you were! You sat on your backside most of the afternoon!
"A friend of mine sold me a radio that doesn't work." "Some friend!"
Wow, that was some dinner!
Grammar
SomeSome is a determiner and a pronoun. …
Some as a determinerWe use some before nouns to refer to indefinite quantities. Although the quantity is not important or not defined, using some implies a limited quantity: …
Some as a pronounWe use some as a pronoun (i.e. without a noun following) when the noun is understood: …
Some of …
Some: typical errors …
Some and any
We use some and any in different types of clauses. …
Idioms
and then some
some ... or other
Some 50 tons of rock are taken from the quarry every day.
The water is some 20 to 30 metres beneath the ground.
She says she's feeling some better.
We could turn down the heat some if that would make you more comfortable.
Let’s get some work done.
Some stories he wrote were made into movies.
Some jerk backed into my car in the parking lot.
There’s got to be some way out of here.
Some 200 people applied for the job.
If you want more spaghetti, please take some.
I like some of the people in my class.
In negative sentences, you use "any" or "no" instead of "some." In questions, you usually use "any" instead of "some."
She was married to him for some years.
These things have been going on for some time.
Some party that turned out to be – nobody showed up.
Margo is really a terrific cook – that was some dinner!]
I slept some in the car on the way home.
which is correct sometime or sometimes?
Is some time correct?
What does give it some time mean?
What does sometime next week mean?
Is it sometime or some time?
What is the difference between any time and anytime
How can I figure out when to use some time, sometime, or sometimes ...
Sometime, Sometimes, and Some Time - Everything After Z
Avoid sometime vs some time vs sometimes confusion
sometime in a sentence
it's been some time
sometime in a sentence
give me some time
difference between sometime and sometimes
some time in the future
sometime in the future
some time tonight
sometime tonight
require some time
everybody's got to learn sometimes
everybody's got to learn sometime
Sometime means “at some point.”
As an adjective, sometime also means “former.”
Some time means “a period of time”—usually a long period of time.
Sometimes means “occasionally.”
There are two ways to use sometime as one word.
What's the differnce?
You can use the space, or lack of a space, between some and time to remember the difference between sometime and some time.
While they appear very similar, sometime, sometimes, and some time have slightly different meanings.
Sometime means 'at an unknown or undecided time in the future or the past': Why don't you come over and have dinner with us sometime? (at an undecided time in the future) I knew I had met her sometime, but I couldn't remember when.
you need to be careful when you use them.
Would I say “I can sometimes…” or “I sometimes can…”
Definition of sometimes
: at times : now and then : occasionally
: sometime
We may say unto you, as Tertullian said sometime unto the heathens.
‘you must come and have supper sometime’
‘sometime after six everybody left’
‘I guess this gives me an actual reason to go to Wigan sometime soon…’
‘I think there may be a cinema trip to Manchester sometime in my future…’
‘However, by the time the bank sells shares to international investors sometime next year, the price tag could rise much higher.’
‘McConnell's hope is that sometime in the future, games between Celtic and Rangers will be remembered for the football and not for the hate.’
‘I will improve it sometime in the future… when I get a little more time.’
‘A Bill is expected to be brought to the House sometime next year.’
‘I read a depressing account of it in The Guardian sometime back.’
‘However, sometime during the next few decades, though one does not know when, there was a sea change in peasants' attitude.’
‘I first came to Dublin via Belfast sometime in the early 1970s.’
‘Let's hope they manage to get to the US at some stage, but more importantly get to the UK sometime soon…’
‘This morning it announced plans to return £65m to investors sometime in the first six months of 2003.’
‘You'll have to wait until sometime in 2004 to see it, I'm afraid.’
‘More specifically, she would want to get into writing non-fiction sometime later and even make a movie or at least script one.’
‘Afterwards they went upstairs to use Holly's computer and the two girls left Red House Gardens sometime after 5.35 pm.’
‘It's rumoured the term originated in Vancouver sometime last decade, but it wasn't exactly meant to be endearing.’
‘Send your estimates here, and I'll post them sometime in the next few days.’
‘James, who is based in NYC, built a house in Galway sometime ago and spends as much time possible there, where he has a number of horses.’
‘After sometime I felt homesick and took a ten-day break from there.’
‘It is expected to reach hurricane strength in the next 24 hours, and then smack into Nicaragua sometime on Sunday.’
‘I have no doubt that John will settle into his new position with ease and prepare for when he surely will get the job on a permanent basis sometime in the new year.’
‘sometimes I want to do things on my own’
‘It almost looks as though the slicer is using a scythe rather than a club sometimes.’
‘I do eat a lot of Quorn and beans and spinach and eggs, but sometimes it is hard to eat a balanced diet.’
‘There must have been a side to him that sometimes got very down, but I never saw that.’
‘The way he acts sometimes, one wonders if he has had any experience of a real lady.’
‘In the evening they are full but sometimes during the day there are slots to fill.’
‘He acknowledges that sometimes art simply holds up a mirror to the society it is born from.’
‘Do you think that sometimes the attitudes of a small town can fuel talent as well as suppress it?’
‘Yet he could be so affected by his job that he was sometimes unable to speak before an execution.’
‘Men were sometimes summoned during the night and they took it in turns to work on Sundays.’
‘The solutions are sometimes not what we would like, but there is always a way ahead.’
‘Every job is a stressful period for a lot of people and there are still sometimes disputes.’
‘It can also sometimes be a bit difficult to attract the attention of the staff in the lounge bar.’
‘He has discovered that life in Bolton can sometimes be awkward as a wheelchair user.’
‘I sometimes still hear the shouts but on the whole the fans seem happy enough this year.’
‘It can seem impossible to get a handle on this vast and sometimes unforgiving region.’
‘During filming I would sometimes beg the camera crew to tell us what was going on in a scene.’
‘From the cradle to the grave it is a passion that is eternal, even if it is sometimes infernal.’
‘As he says, sometimes the only way to get value for your licence fee is to be an aberrant decoder.’
‘Getting up early is not my natural inclination but does pay off sometimes for the light.’
‘The game of football is a strange one, sometimes you don't play well and you still get a win.’
Slips for the letter “G” were nearly burned with somebody’s trash. All of the entries for the letter “H” somehow turned up in Italy.
Sometime in the 13th century, however, “an eke-name” was mistakenly interpreted as “a neke-name,” and the N permanently jumped across from the indefinite article an to the verb eke. The same error—known linguistically as “rebracketing” or “junctural metanalysis”—is responsible for nadders, numpires, and naprons all losing their initial Ns in the Middle English period.
Oddly, sneeze was spelled with an F and not an S, fneze, in Middle English, which gives weight to the theory that it was probably originally coined onomatopoeically. At least one explanation of why the letter changed suggests that this F inadvertently became an S sometime in the 15th century due to continual misreadings of the long lowercase f as the old-fashioned long S character, ſ.
There's some cake in the kitchen if you'd like it.
Here's some news you might be interested in.
We've been having some problems with our TV over the last few weeks.
Could you give me some idea of when the construction work will finish?
I've got to do some more work before I can go out.
I've just had some chocolate.
Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.
I need to get some fresh air to clear my head .
Steven gave me some good advice.
We had some friends round for dinner on Saturday.
It'll be some time before we meet again.
It was some years later when they next met.
We discussed the problem at some length.
Some lucky person will win more than $1,000,000 in the competition.
Some idiot's locked the door!
There must be some way you can relieve the pain.
Some people just don't know when to shut up.
Some help you were! You sat on your backside most of the afternoon!
"A friend of mine sold me a radio that doesn't work." "Some friend!"
Wow, that was some dinner!
Grammar
SomeSome is a determiner and a pronoun. …
Some as a determinerWe use some before nouns to refer to indefinite quantities. Although the quantity is not important or not defined, using some implies a limited quantity: …
Some as a pronounWe use some as a pronoun (i.e. without a noun following) when the noun is understood: …
Some of …
Some: typical errors …
Some and any
We use some and any in different types of clauses. …
Idioms
and then some
some ... or other
Some 50 tons of rock are taken from the quarry every day.
The water is some 20 to 30 metres beneath the ground.
She says she's feeling some better.
We could turn down the heat some if that would make you more comfortable.
Let’s get some work done.
Some stories he wrote were made into movies.
Some jerk backed into my car in the parking lot.
There’s got to be some way out of here.
Some 200 people applied for the job.
If you want more spaghetti, please take some.
I like some of the people in my class.
In negative sentences, you use "any" or "no" instead of "some." In questions, you usually use "any" instead of "some."
She was married to him for some years.
These things have been going on for some time.
Some party that turned out to be – nobody showed up.
Margo is really a terrific cook – that was some dinner!]
I slept some in the car on the way home.
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