- meaning - Next Friday vs. This Friday - English Language Usage . . .
On friday, "next friday" refers to 7 days later On Friday, "this Friday" would not be used (one might say today, last friday, or next friday)
- Precise meaning of Last N days, weeks, months or years
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
- Is there such a thing as a proper verb, like a proper noun?
Unlike common nouns, proper names are already definite Yes, today's Hyde Park may be different from yesterday's, but such applications have special meaning Common and proper nouns differ grammatically Spelling is immaterial
- When is an event so old that the phrase the other day no longer . . .
I usually say that something happened "the other day" when it was the day before yesterday, or possibly a few days ago In fact, I even feel that I may be misleading in describing an event that happened, say, 4 days ago as occurring "the other day " My personal limit is a few days, maybe a week if you're stretching it
- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
Collins concurs: up to, on, or from (a specified time) Most dictionaries give the first two senses as listed by Wikipedia, but Garner [A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage; Bryan A Garner] disagrees: But as of now does not mean 'at present'; rather it means 'up to the present time' [It] is today totally unobjectionable in AmE
- prepositions - Does until [date] mean before that date? - English . . .
What does until mean in the following? You need to deliver this product within 2 days (until August 18, 2011) to meet your deadline and get paid Does this mean that I have to deliver the produ
- Is it tomorrow after midnight? Or is it still today?
the day after today and today is on or in the course of this present day and day is a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next, corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis (all quotes taken from the google com dictionary)
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