IT'S (HIGH) TIME
It's (high) time you left. You will miss the bus.
This sentence refers to present time and it implies that perhaps it is already too late. We can use this structureThe way in which the parts of a sentence, clause or expression are arranged. E.g.: make somebody + infinitive in "The teacher made me rewrite the composition." in the past tenseA grammatical category that is marked by verb inflection. To express when an event or action happens in time or when a state exists, we use tenses. too, however, the unrealA tense that expresses a hypothetical situation. E.g.: I wish you were here. tense in the second clauseA group of related words containing a subject and a verb. will not change.
It was time I left.
Compare with this structure:
It's time (for me) to go.
This sentence implies that the speaker is still in time.
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