[Grammar] First time or first times

[dennietrieu]

We start a sentence with "First time" or "first times". Which is correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

We start a sentence with "First time" or "first times". Which is correct?

There can only ever be one "first time" that something happens, or that you do something, so it's "time". After you've done it once, it's the "second time" etc.

You wouldn't start a sentence with "First time" though. You might start it with "The first time ..."

 

[euncu]

There can only ever be one "first time" that something happens, or that you do something, so it's "time".

What about;

First times are always hard.

 

[emsr2d2]

What about;

First times are always hard.

I would say "The first time is always hard [when doing anything]".