Sometimes, some times, sometime and some time - (Level: Intermediate)

<div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.marcosgazzana.com/markgazza/podcastfiles/Ep006-Vocabulary-SomeTimeS.mp3"><img src="http://www.marcosgazzana.com/markgazza/podcastfiles/mp3gif.gif" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 40px; height: 45px; " /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.marcosgazzana.com/markgazza/podcastfiles/Ep006-Vocabulary-SomeTimeS.mp3">Download the mp3 file</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <b>l</b></span><b>e</b></span><b>ngth: </b>3 min 10 secs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><b>file size: </b>2.90 Mb<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">__________</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In today's episode we'll be looking at the different spellings and different meanings of '<b>sometimes</b>' (spelled altogether with an 's'), '<b>some times</b>' (spelled separately with an 's'), '<b>sometime</b>' (altogether without an 's') and '<b>some time</b>' (separate without an 's'). </div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Let's have a look at the following sentences.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">1) John <b>sometimes</b> visits his parents on Sundays.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">2) George told us he is going to come over <b>sometime</b> next month.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">3) Laura needed <b>some time</b> to figure out what she was going to do.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">4) Maria told me that her computer didn't work, but after I tried to restart it <b>some times</b>, her computer finally started up normally.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">'<b>Sometimes</b>', spelled altogether with an "s", is an adverb of frequency and basically means "on some occasions". So, the first example means that John visits his parents on some occasions on Sundays, or in other words on some Sundays he visits them and on some he doesn't. </div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">'<b>Sometime</b>', spelled altogether without an "s", means "at some indefinite or indeterminate point of time" and is also an adverb. It refers most of the times to an indefinite future time and can be replaced by the expression "one day", so you could say to a friend: "we have to get together <b>sometime</b> to talk about old times" or "we have to get together <b>one day</b> to talk about old times". </div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Some time</span>', spelled separately without an "s", basically means "an indefinite amount of time", for instance some days or weeks or so on. So, in the third example above, it means that Laura needed <b>some days</b> to figure out what she was going to do. Time that she could use to reflect and take the right decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Some times<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">', spelled separately with an "s", means "a few times" and is not very common as most of the times speakers prefer to use expressions like "a few times" or "a couple of times".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Well, this is it! Thanks for listening!!! I'm Marcos Gazzana and this is English Language Podcast.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">__________</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://www.marcosgazzana.com/markgazza/podcastfiles/Ep006-Vocabulary-SomeTimeS.mp3">Download the mp3 file</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Subscribe to this podcast by visiting <a href="http://englishlanguagepodcast.blogspot.com/">http://englishlanguagepodcast.blogspot.com/</a> and send your comments either by e-mail or post them on the blog.</div>