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- Year or Years? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The comparison with "the second year and the last year" supports plural rather than singular In that "full" version, each occurrence of the word year clearly relates to a single year The shorter form in your sentence doesn't just involve dropping the first instance of "year"; the remaining year is now referred to by both "second" and "final
- grammar - Is it wrong when people say from this year instead of . . .
For example, I will work from this year To me, it sounds a bit incorrect Maybe it's best to say "from this year on" or "from this year onwards"? Maybe it's just better to say, "starting this year" instead of "from this year"?
- What differences are there between annually, yearly, and every year?
Longman says yearly means ‘happening or appearing every year or once a year’ Oxford says yearly means ‘Happening or produced once a year or every year’ Your Dengue outbreaks seem very confusing In my country your ‘rainy season’ does happen once a year; that's why it's called 'the rainy season'
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Care should be taken to keep to Orwell's second rule unless one has a good reason not to Perhaps 'the remainder of the holidays' and 'the rest of the holidays' suggest different things - one week remaining, and three occasional days left this year –
- grammar - How can I express what I study? - English Language Usage . . .
Note also that terminology may differ from place to place In some U S institutions, you would conventionally be called be a junior, at others a third-year student or simply a third-year; at the military academies you would be a second-class cadet midshipman The shortest way to express it might be I am a third-year undergraduate in computer
- Year olds or year-olds - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
@tchrist "year-old" is a compound "fifteen–year-old" is a compound created not by combining the words fifteen, year and old with each other on an equal footing (like "vis-a-vis") where one uses hyphens or where one is a prefix (like "non-English-speaking") where one generally uses hyphens but with one part is already a compound and hence some styles favour the dash to keep the compound
- How to say before previous in one word?
@user It's not a typo; it's what I intended; it's how I say it; it's perfectly correct when month (or week, year, century etc) is locative rather than substantive It's not uncommon (or incorrect) even when month is substantive: Month before last was wetter than last month –
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
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