
Two days "is" or "are"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2017年6月18日 · Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time. – Lawrence Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 15:32
'Gone are the days when ... ' Is this expression often used?
2019年1月21日 · Gone are the days when you waited six weeks to close on an assignment of a performing large liquid loan. Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents. Gone too are the days when communication was top-down
'In the upcoming days' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2018年12月29日 · "In the coming days" is acceptable but probably too formal, I agree with @BoldBen's comment that "In the next few days" is a better choice. "In the next couple of days" also works, and arguably implies a slightly shorter time frame (the next few days could be 1-4 days, whereas the next couple of days probably means 2-3 days)
'in' vs. 'on' for dates - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2015年3月31日 · Dates are reported in English as being in large units like century, decade, era, epoch, period, etc, and also parts of a day -- morning, afternoon, evening; on individual days; and at individual times, plus at night. The event occurred in the twentieth century, specifically at 03:43 Greenwich, in the early morning on August tenth, in 1952.
grammar - In 2-3 days vs Within 2-3 days - English Language
2014年8月6日 · If you really wanted to say that something would happen after 100 days and before 200 days you should say it is happening between 100 and 200 days from now. Saying within 100-200 days is (IMO) asking for someone to misinterpret your meaning, sooner or later. Different people will undoubtedly come to either of the same two conclusions you ...
"Nowadays" versus "now days" [closed] - English Language
The Corpus of Contemporary American English does have a few cites for now days, but frankly, just look at the figures yourself: nowadays 3167 now days 7 And here are the figures from the British National Corpus: nowadays 1556 now days 0 That's how tiny a minority you're in. For once, the spellchecker is actually right.
Meaning of "by" when used with dates - inclusive or exclusive
2014年8月28日 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
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.
range inclusion - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2019年10月1日 · The phrasing "on leave from X till Y" can be misinterpreted to mean that Y will be your first day back at work, so I wouldn't use option 3 without adding "(inclusive)". Also phrasing it as a range from one date to another sounds odd to me when you're talking about only two days in total. Option 2 sounds most natural to me. –
Origin and usage of "day of" - English Language & Usage Stack …
2020年6月20日 · There is an expression I have heard used many times in conversational U.S. English but cannot recall ever seeing in writing: day of as an adverb, omitting the object of the preposition. Examples: ...