So, the time shown on the clock is quarter past 10 or 15 minutes past 10 on the clock or 10:15.
Quarter to 10 is 9:45, when the minute hand is on 9 and the hour hand is between 9 and 10.
When the time is 'quarter past', it is 15 minutes past the hour. The long hand (minute hand) points to the 3. The short hand (hour hand) points just past the hour.
When the time is 'five past', it is 5 minutes after the hour and the long hand (minute hand) points to the 1. When it is 'ten past', it is 10 minutes after the hour and the long hand (minute hand) points to the 2. For ten and five past, the short hand (hour hand) points just after the hour.
Quarter past 7 means 07:15 read by clock. Quarter to 7 means 06:45 read by clock. Required time taken = (15+15) = 30 minutes.
Time quarter past twelve means that the time is 12:15.
Tip: a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. At 12:15, the minute hand has moved a quarter way around the clock. Doesn't it look like a quarter of a circle? Quarter past 1, quarter past 2 and quarter past 3 are all ways of describing 1:15, 2:15 and 3:15.
When we say, “A quarter past 6,” we mean one-fourth of an hour past 6 o'clock, or 15 minutes past 6. When we say, “A quarter till 6,” we mean one-fourth of an hour till 6 o'clock, or 15 minutes till 6.
Telling Time in English: Using 'Past' or 'To' As we know, there are 60 minutes in an hour. With minutes 1 – 29, we say it's past (or after) the hour. For example, “It's ten past three”, or 3:10. Or another example, “It's twenty after eight”, or 8:20.
A clock that says it is 10 minutes past 12.
The usage of words past and to in reading time is shown below: ∴ Ten minutes past 7 is 7:10. Q.
=> Quarter past means 15 minutes later. => Quarter to means 15 minutes before. => Half past means 30 minutes later.
One hour equals 60 minutes. If we divide one hour into four equal parts, each part is called a quarter of an hour and equals 15 minutes. Thus, one quarter of an hour means 14th of 60 minutes or simply 15 minutes.
The time quarter past 3 is 3:15, i.e.
Quarter-past (15 minutes past) 9:15 (quarter past nine) 7:15 (quarter past seven)
Yes, that means it's 11:10! Ten minutes after eleven o'clock. Sometimes you also might hear people say, "It's ten past eleven." Same meaning as 11:10.
Quarter past 5 is 4:45.
Hence, 8:30 is the correct answer.
Ten past four (4:10) has done it again.
To indicate the minutes following the hour, "after" or "past" is used. Thus, 6:10 p.m. would be expressed as "ten past six" or "ten after six".
Presumably related to "half past six" meaning 6:30 a.m. or p.m. (06:30 or 18:30), but the origin and explanation is unknown; speculations exist online.
How do you write half past 3? To denote half past 3, we can write the time as 3:30.