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Vocabulary: some time/ sometime/ sometimes - English lesson

are considered to be difficult: sometime, some time, sometimes...  

1) SOMETIME is an adverb. (It is a single word and has no final -s.) It means:

'one of these days', 'one day or another', 'some day'', 'within the month'...

     Sometime/ someday other than now...

It can be replaced by: 'someday', or 'at some point'. 

- Paula said she'd visit us sometime around Xmas.

2) SOME TIME: written in two words: a period of time, quite a while...                                                   

When SOME TIME is written in two words, it expresses a period of time and often refers to a long moment.

It can also refer to an imprecise period of time, and also to a long period.

- For some time, people have known that the Earth is round. 

- It will still take me some time to finish this report... one or two more days, at least. 

3) SOMETIMES: ( a single word ) is an adverb meaning 'OCCASIONALLY' or 'NOW AND THEN'. 

There are here several 'difficulties' for non-native people."... 

French people have the same difficulty in their language (the difference between 'quelquefois' and

'quelques fois' is a real problem  for French people...) The grammatical 'classes' of words are 

studied in primary school by most students and then forgotten: Then, the difficulty only exists when

writing, and formal writing is used less and less.

SOMETIMES is an adverb expressing frequency like always, never, usually, and rarely.

- Sometimes, it's hard to understand what the toddler is saying... 

- English grammar sometimes follows its own rules, and sometimes it doesn't! 

Very strict rules... If you know them, it shouldn't be difficult to make differences between these three  

words. The test should really help you... Go for the test!  

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1. Mike has been practising martial Arts for some timesometimesometimesI don't know now. He's ready to be a champion...



2. When I'm talking to Jim, I sometimessometimesome timeI don't know wonder whether it's better to reply or to say nothing...



3. I'm afraid we'll have to wait some timesometimesometimesI don't know before the park becomes as beautiful again as it used to be before the storms in September.



4. My father cooks, sometimessometimesome timeI don't know, but he never cleans the house...



5. I'm afraid it will take sometimesome timesometimesI don't know to finish this chapter of my next novel...



6. I promise I'll visit your Mom sometimesometimessome timeI don't know before the summer holidays.



7. Don't take care of him... He really says strange things sometimessometimesome timeI don't know, err, even most of the time!



8. Jane and Tom have been married for sometimesometimessome timeI don't know now, but I've heard that they're getting divorced...



9. 'You can believe me. I left your birthday present at home and will bring it to you some timesometimessometimeI don't know before tomorrow night...



10. Tim's father has been ill for sometimesome timesometimesI don't know but Tim 's happy now because doctors have found a new therapy in Switzerland.