¿Con a o sin a?
1.Por la tarde, a la una y media o a las dos volvemos a estudiar o trabajar.
2.A partir de las cuatro y media,hacemos deportes hasta la hora de la cena.Cenamos entre las seis y las seis y media.
My question is, those two sentences. Why the first one with A la una , and A las dos, but the second sentence is just LAS, but without A? Also entre LAS SEIS Y LAS SEIS Y MEDIA.but why not entre A las seis y A las seis y media?
And also , can we say Por la tarde, LA UNA Y MEDIA O LAS DOS volvemos a estudiar o trabajar. Without A, is it correct too?
1 Answer
Hi Melissa, prepositions -those little words: a , de , entre... are necessary to give sense to the sentence.
Por la tarde, LA UNA Y MEDIA O LAS DOS volvemos a estudiar o trabajar. Without A, is it correct too?
No,it is not. It sounds like these:
I'll have lunch 3 o'clock
I am Spain.
There is a chair the table and the window.
I'll have lunch at 3 o'clock
I am from Spain.
There is a chair between the table and the window.
A la una - at one o'clock. A expresses a determinate moment in time
A partir de - From a moment on... De expresses the time after a point in the time.
Entre la 1 y las 2- Between 1 and 2 Entre expresses the time elapsed between two points in time