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Which one is correct: sleep time or sleeping time?
which one is correct with english language: sleep time or sleeping time?
and what's the difference between those sentence?
thanks for your answer
7 Answers
- LaurenceLv 71 decade ago
North American English generally prefers the root verb: Sleep time, swin suit, spark plug;
British English usually prefers the participle: Sleeping time, swimming costume, sparking plug.
Some people might claim to see some semantic difference between the two, but this is only because some Brits will always go for the American form, so that both forms do occur in modern British English. Traditionally, and to a large extent, even today, the choice is one of dialect: North American versus British.
Source(s): Forty years speaking English in the UK, twenty years speaking it in North America, twenty years elsewhere in the English speaking world. - 1 decade ago
Sleep time would be correct by my opinion. Because if you say "sleeping time" you might say that the time is sleeping ^_^. But they are both accepted in eglish litelature so write which ever you wnat. Not a terrible difference.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
SLEEP TIME is the correct one. Because sleeping time is the continues tense
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
It would depend on context and probably in which English-speaking country you were. 'Sleep time' sounds more American, 'sleeping time' sound more British.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
sleeping time is the right word...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Bed time.