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- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that day, or what And does "7 days" mean 7 calendar days, or 7 business days? Etc
- How to address today and the following 9 days
Would you think "the next 10 days" includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days?
- How should a month and ten days from now be interpreted?
The most natural thing to do would be to take them in the order specified So first go a month from today, and then go 10 days This goes to March 30th As a general presumption, take the operations in the order specified What is a month and 10 days from May 31st? A month from May 31st is June 30th, and the extra 10 days brings us to July 10th
- Why is today morning wrong but tomorrow morning right?
I think it is a good question When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated
- What is the meaning of within next two days? [duplicate]
Hence, if within two working days were said on a Thursday, it would probably mean before the end of Monday In conclusion, the expression within the next two days does not have an exact meaning, but most commonly means before the end of the day after tomorrow If in doubt, check with the person who said it
- Precise meaning of Last N days, weeks, months or years
0 Today is Monday Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at midnight on Sunday No one would refer to anything occurring today, yesterday or the day before as taking place last week or in the last two weeks I wouldn't worry about it
- Last, This, and Next (days of the week) [duplicate]
Last, This, and Next (days of the week) [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 10 years, 11 months ago Modified 10 years, 11 months ago Viewed 12k times
- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week "In ~ afternoon" suggests that the afternoon is
- time - how to express period until event - English Language Usage . . .
So let's say today is Monday and there will be a party on Friday How should I say when the party is: the party is in 3 days or the party is in 4 days? Also, is this sequence of time periods c
- word choice - In the last 3 months vs in the past 3 months . . .
Today is Oct 13, 2010 It can be argued that in the last 3 months would be intuitively understood as the time frame from 8 13 2010 to 10 12 2010, while in the past three months would mean July, August, and September
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