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Bookmark or Share- Last, This, and Next (days of the week) [duplicate]In my mind, what is logical is that "last" means the last one (the one in the most recent past); "this" means the next one coming up; and "next" is the second one from now. "This" to me denotes the future - it points forward in time. For example, today is Tuesday, April 14th. If I say, "last Saturday" I mean April 11th; if I say, "this Saturday ...
- Where do you put the suffix when listing the last name first?In a full name listing, the suffix follows the last name because the person is primarily known by is given name and surname, the suffix being a secondary piece of information. When listing last name first, the given name follows the surname because that is how we sort: all the Does, then the Johns, and finally the Jr.s. The preferred form would be
- Usage of "second/third/fourth ... last" - English Language & Usage ...The 4th is next to last or last but one (penultimate). The 3rd is second from (or to) last or last but two (antepenultimate). The 2nd, is third from (or to) last or last but three. According to Google Ngram Viewer there are some occurrences of preantepenultimate in the corpus. As for dialect, you will rarely see the Latin forms other than ...
- grammar - Which one is correct? the last or last - English Language ...1 Answer. Sorted by: 2. "last Saturday" means the previous Saturday, the one before we are talking. "the last Saturday" means the final Saturday in a period of time. So "The last Saturday in November" is perfectly correct. So is "I haven't read a book since last Saturday"; but also "I haven't read a book since the last Saturday of November".
- word choice - "In the last 3 months" vs "in the past 3 months ...“in the last 3 months” - I guess this term should be used with past simple. The time period is already gone. E.g. now is february and if I say "in the last 3 months", I mean "in november, december and january". The term “in the past 3 months" shows the period which is not finished yet. So there should be used the present perfect.
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