- 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
- How to address today and the following 9 days
Would you think "the next 10 days" includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days?
- How should a month and ten days from now be interpreted?
The most natural thing to do would be to take them in the order specified So first go a month from today, and then go 10 days This goes to March 30th As a general presumption, take the operations in the order specified What is a month and 10 days from May 31st? A month from May 31st is June 30th, and the extra 10 days brings us to July 10th
- Why is today morning wrong but tomorrow morning right?
I think it is a good question When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated
- Last, This, and Next (days of the week) [duplicate]
For example, today is Tuesday, April 14th If I say, "last Saturday" I mean April 11th; if I say, "this Saturday" I mean April 18th; and if I say "next Saturday" I mean April 25th - although I admit it gets a little ambiguous when "this" saturday is several days away
- What is the meaning of within next two days? [duplicate]
Hence, if within two working days were said on a Thursday, it would probably mean before the end of Monday In conclusion, the expression within the next two days does not have an exact meaning, but most commonly means before the end of the day after tomorrow If in doubt, check with the person who said it
- 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 ambiguous If I tell my supervisor on a Monday: Boss, I
- Precise meaning of Last N days, weeks, months or years
0 Today is Monday Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at midnight on Sunday No one would refer to anything occurring today, yesterday or the day before as taking place last week or in the last two weeks I wouldn't worry about it
- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
6 I'm from Africa, Nigeria, of Ibo extraction During our primary school days, we were taught that breakfast is the morning meal, lunch afternoon, supper evening and dinner night
- time - how to express period until event - English Language Usage . . .
So let's say today is Monday and there will be a party on Friday How should I say when the party is: the party is in 3 days or the party is in 4 days? Also, is this sequence of time periods c
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