You know 'time'! You go to school at a certain time, check the time on your phone or watch and you know how much time this lesson takes – not long! There are some English phrases with the word 'time' ...

With these time expressions we are thinking about a definite or finished time in the past, so we wound normally use a past tense. Compare the following: When did Brenda phone? ~ Not long ago. About ...

Severina Rocha from Brazil writes: Would you please help me to identity which time expressions go with which tenses, e.g. not long ago, a little while earlier, till midnight, and so on? Betty Chan ...