The first english language faculty the department of english phonetics and phonology

- what time does the show start?
- can your daughter tell me the time yet?
3 [c/u] a particular period minutes, hours, days, years, etc.
She left a short time ago.
She thought about it for a long time.
How much time did it take to get here?
I’ve been thinking of changing my job for some time.
There have been improvements in the length of time patients have for treatment.
4 [c] an occasion on which you do something or on which something happens;
It was the first time we’d met.
The next time you need financial advice.
Did you have a good time at camp?
5 [singular/v] the moment or situation when something happens;
I was still living with my parents at that time.
By the time we arrived, the other guests were already there.
When would be a good time to discuss the proposal?
If seemed like the right time to make the change.
6 [v] the particular point when something should happen;
Is it closing time already?
Come on everyone. It’s time for dinner.
Did you plan arrive on time?
It is time your children went to bed.
7 [u] time that you have available for doing something in;
She will have less time to spend with family so friends now.
Come so see me next week, if you get free time.
I should be able to find to phone him tomorrow.
8 [c] a period in history or in someone’s life;
The fort was built in roman times a time of political instability.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time as a teacher.
9 [c] the amount of time that someone takes to finish a race;
Harris cut two second of his previous best time.
Besides this noun “time” can be sound in the following phrases:

• 
  about time:
  

1. 
   spoken used for showing that you are annoyed because something has happened later than it should:
   

Here they are, so about time too.

2. 
   used for saying that someone should do something soon:
   

I am not about time we got a new car.
- a head of you/ it’s etc. time much more modern or advanced than most other people or things:
As an artist, he was years ahead of his time.

• 
  all the time
  

1. 
   often:
   

It’s a very good restaurant. We go there all the time.
2. continuously;
It rained all the time they were there.

• 
  at a time used for saying how many things there are each group or each occasion:
  

Deal with each questions separately, one at a time.

• 
  at all times formal always:
  

Please keep your boys with you at all times.

• 
  at one time in the past, but not now:
  

At one time, that kind of thing would have made me really angry.
- at times sometimes but not often;
She was fun to be with at times.
- before you time used for saying that you are too young to remember something:
Those styles were a bit before my time.

• 
  for days/ weeks at a time continuously for a period of several days/ weeks for the time being at the.
  

When we deal with the words denoting time we come across very great deal of words in the English language. They may be different according to their structure so to the parts of speech. They can be a noun (time, period, term, stage, space) a verb (continue, last, go on) an adjective (continually, on foot, durable) so adverb (during, day by day, meanwhile, meantime, all the time)¹⁷
According to their morphological structure they may be simple, derived so compound words.
While analyzing the semantic structure of the words denoting time we can observe that many of them are polysemnatic, however, some monosemantic words are also found here. For instance, combination of prepositional phrase up to is considered to monosemantic word expressing the meaning “till present”, however, combining with the “date” it becomes polysemantic word denoting time.
Giving the most resent news so information; so modern so using the latest ideas or knowledge.
Instead of the word date the noun minute can also be combined with this prepositional phrase so it becomes up to the minute that can express the meanings:

1. 
   containing all the most recent news so information.
   
2. 
   very modern
   

As we have analyzed that two word combinations with the word up to which was monosemantic become synonymous.
We have given the semantic structure of the words time that is as noun above, now let us analyze the semantic structure of the word last which can be a determiner, an adjective, a pronoun, an adverb, a noun so a verb.
So, the word last can have following meanings:

1. 
   happening coming or ending most recently: