Partly cloudy term often used in a weather forecast to indicate that skies are sunny & cloudy at same time.
Precipitation rain or snow that falls on an area.
Puddle collection of rain water.
Scorching heat extremely hot temperature/ a very hot day.
Shower quick/ light rainstorm.
Time Words For & Since
For + Period: - A period is a duration of time, 5 minutes, 2 weeks, 6 years. `For` means from the beginning of the period until the end of the period. For can be used with all tenses.
Since + Period: - A point is a precise moment in time. For ex: - 9 o’ clock, 1st January, Monday. `Since` means from a point in the past until now. Since is normally used with perfect tenses.
He has been living in Bangkok for long/ for a long time.
I worked at that bank for five long years.
Will the universe continue forever?
Note: {`For` is not used with “all day”, “all time”, etc. I was there all day. (Not for all day)
Since is normally used with perfect tenses:
He has been here since 9 am. / He has been working since he arrived.
I had lived in New York since my childhood.
Since can also be used in the structure “It is [period] since…”
It is a year since I saw her.
How long is it since you got married?
Ever since I knew this colony I found only complications with the residents and life to turn hell over here.
Prepositions
Definition: - A preposition is a pre-positioned word which is taken in advance so as to provide a proper attestation or attachment suitable to frame a given sentence or situation by a human-being. It helps in positioning the word so that the proper meaning of the sentence can be achieved.
What is the time by your watch?
What is the time in your watch?
He was stabbed by a knife and not with a normal pencil.
There is honor among thieves as well not just only between two normal looking friends in the world.
Besides being fined, the murderer was sentenced tolife-imprisonment for 90 years.
She came and sat secretly beside her husband without informing him of her presence.