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Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m., I heard someone shouting.

 
 
Reply Fri 5 Apr, 2019 11:54 pm
Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m., I heard someone shouting.
Yesterday at 6:30 a.m., I heard someone shouting.

Which is the correct sentence?

Thanks.
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maxdancona
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2019 12:02 am
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:

Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m., I heard someone shouting.
Yesterday at 6:30 a.m., I heard someone shouting.

Which is the correct sentence?

Thanks.


Either is correct. In the first case, you can drop the "a.m. if you would like and say "Yesterday morning at 6:30...." or even "Yesterday at 6:30 in the morning..." (the last seems slightly more annoyed to me).

If I wanted to make it stronger (to express my annoyance), I might even say "Yesterday at 6:30 in the ******* morning I heard someone shouting.".
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2019 01:24 am
@tanguatlay,
In the first sentence, the word morning is redundant--"6:20 a.m." is obviously in the morning. The second sentences is correct.

In most novels, histories and biographies I have read which were written in England or Scotland, times are expressed thus: "6.30" and not with the colon as is used in the United States. That would be the subject of a separate question, however, and you'd want an Englishman or a Scotsman to tell you how times are written there.
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tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2019 11:15 am
Thanks, maxdancona and Setanta.
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