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- 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
- word choice - What are the abbreviations for days of the week . . .
It will be used in a tabular data program to show information about free work days of employed and each column can't have enought space to include full week day name For "common form" I mean, what are the abbreviations that is more used in programs
- Meaning of within 30 days of [a certain date in the future] in context?
I am required to submit a certain form "within 30 days of [a certain date in the future]" I suspect that the form's author actually meant to say something like "at least 30 days before [a certain date]"
- Nowadays versus now days [closed] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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
- Correct plural form of a noun preceded by zero
Days are discussed in fractions somewhat more frequently than beans, especially in project estimating - "making that change will add half a day to the schedule", for example If talking in decimals, though, we'd be more likely to say "0 5 days " That suggests that there's a grammatical distinction between using traditional and decimal fractions
- is there a difference between last 2 days and past 2 days
3 I would say that last 2 days refers to the 2 days that terminate any period, regardless of where that period is located in time For example, you can say: I felt really bad during the last 2 days of that trip in 1998 The past 2 days refers to the 2 days preceding the moment of speaking So it cannot be used as above
- Can you say within 90 days after? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I understand that you can say, "within 30 days of receiving your application", but I am seeing more and more "within 30 days after your application is received" Is the latter grammatical?
- 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
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