Learn about common American English phrases used to describe time, like 'it took forever' and 'it's gonna be a second.' ...

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 ...