
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 …
'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 …
'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; …
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 …
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …