- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Leap year is 366 days Quarter is 3 months and one fourth of a year Archaic sennight (sevennight) was just another word for week, as well as hebdomad (more facetious than archaic) Quarantine is 40 days, though limited in its usage Meteorologists may call 5 days a pentad Catholics had octave for 8 days and still have novena for 9
- Whats the difference between day and date?
a unit of time (e g , this task would take 2 days to complete) A date on the other hand usually has the month and the year along with the day: the 21st February 2011 It also has a fixed quality I think I was wondering if there are any other differences between day and date, and when it's correct to choose one over the other By that I mean I
- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- 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
- Within and in when referring to time - English Language Usage . . .
Within is regarded as specifying an upper limit: within two days means maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but no later than two days from now In is sometimes regarded as more precise: in two days could mean two days from now – particularly with a scheduled event, such as a party That said, there are exceptions where the word in can be more
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
But people often take today to be the first day of the count, so if on Monday someone says "within 3 days" they are thinking day 1=today, Monday; day 2=Tuesday, day 3=Wednesday 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
- grammar - In 2-3 days vs Within 2-3 days - English Language Usage . . .
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
- in vs. on for dates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
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