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to be there?
English speakers use a 12-hour clock, while most other speakers use a 24-hour clock. Arriving before 2:30 in the morning, when most people will be asleep, is less likely to be intended by the English sentence than 2:30 in the afternoon, i.e. 14:30 by the 24-hour clock.
But "to be a there" is not correct, isn't it?
Marafon is correct; the English sentence should read without the "a"; I see that CK has now corrected it. Thanks.
To help with international practice for telling time, it might also be good to change the English sentence to read "2:30 p.m." or "2:30 in the afternoon." Another possibility, if we want to reflect a way that the time is commonly given, is to write it as "half past two in the afternoon."
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Tom said he wanted to be a there before 2:30.
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Tom said he wanted to be there before 2:30.
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