- What does days mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The fourth example is the correct interpretation of day's, but with two things to keep in mind First, in your conclusion you flipped the words around incorrectly *; the journey "belongs to" the day, not the other way around You could re-write the sentence as: The house is a journey of a full day from here Second, while the journey is "of a day," this does not necessarily mean the day "owns
- Whats the correct way to format a date range, time range, and days of . . .
I'd like to write the date and time for an event that runs for one week Currently I have: June 3-7, 2013, 8:30am-5:30pm; Monday-Friday Is this stylistically acceptable? Is there a better way?
- range inclusion - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- What is the difference between: two-day and two days
0 two days refers to the number of days two-day refers to the duration of something If you are French, think about the difference between jour and journee
- 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
- Phrase meaning a 24 7 365 environment
My point was that if I hear "24 7", without further clarification, I don't think it means 24 hours a day 365 25 days a year Therefore in order to be clear, the OP would need to say "24 7 including holidays"
- For each vs for every - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The five days are consecutive, expressed by ' in a row ' Employee A is called for all of those days, expressed by 'Employee A has a shift planned for each of '—observe that 'every' may not be used here because unlike 'each' it is never used as a substantive, only as an adjective
- meaning of no earlier than x months from . . . . .
The sentences are grammatical, but I find their meaning unclear, almost contradictory The first sentence seems to imply that time from issuance-of-letter to commencement-of-course is at most one month, but the second sentence seems to imply that it's possible for this time to be more than two months (otherwise it could just say "This letter will be valid for two months" and ignore the
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