@passenge,
passenge wrote:
hi there
what are the differences between 'sometime', 'sometimes', 'some time' and 'some times', please?
Very rough and probably not complete:
Sometime - at an unspecified time in the past -
James Smith, sometime professor of Latin at Oxford University (James Smith, former professor etc)
Her sometime boyfriend - her former boyfriend
sometimes - occasionally -
Sometimes I go swimming after work.
some time -
(1) at a time in the future not yet decided -
Some time I must tidy up the garden. (But I don't know when.)
(2) with 'at' - a time in the past not specified -
At some time in his life he visited India.
(3) an unspecified amount of time:
I spent some time with Mary yesterday
maybe more...
some times - an unspecified number of occasions or periods.
There are some times in my life I do not like to remember.