I usually eat breakfast at about 7 / at around 7.
Is it okay that I say I usually eat breakfast about 7? (without “at”)
Thank you!
“About 7” sounds weird. If you use ‘around’ you can omit the ‘at’
“I usually eat breakfast around 7”
“I usually eat breakfast at about 7”
“I usually eat breakfast around 7-ish”
I think those would be the most common ways for saying it.
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You might actually hear any of those from native speakers:
I usually eat breakfast around | at about | at around | by | round | about 7 | 7-ish.
(I listed these in order of how they sound to me, from best to worst).
I tend to say (and it sounds better to my ear to say), “I usually eat breakfast around 7” although I would write it as: I usually eat breakfast around 7:00.
It seems redundant to me to write 7:00 am, because to my mind it’s no longer breakfast if you’re eating at 7:00 pm, even if you haven’t eaten all day long, although I might write 7:00 am if I were making a recording in a work setting. “Patient is usually awake and alert and eating breakfast by 7:00 am.”
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Yes they are all fine, even the one without ‘at’.
I usually eat breakfast around eight o’clock. I think that breakfast should be eaten by ten o’clock. If I oversleep, I’ll take brunch.
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Just to point out for the learners, ‘by’ is different from the others. It means at or before and not simply at (or around/about).
I wouldn’t write 7:00 am either, but I would write 7am rather than 7:00.
Yes, you could say about 7.
It doesn’t sound weird if you’re from Britain.