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Bookmark or Share- grammar - Should we use year-end or end-year? - English Language ...The answer to your title question is general reference: 'mid-year exams' (or rarely, 'middle-of-year exams'), but 'end-of-year exams' or less commonly 'year-end exams'. As to why, perhaps it's because 'end-year' would seem to imply 1918 or 1945 say rather than December, but people feel uncomfortable using 'year-mid' as 'mid' as a noun is ...
- "End with" vs. "end in" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchangeend with [something] end [something] with [something] Notice that end in has a specific usage "the meeting ends in disaster" to specify the result, while "the meeting ends with disaster" states the sequence of unrelated events, "the show ended with another famous song". So if there is a logical connection you may use end in like in
- Is it ever correct to use “end” after the name of a month?@tchrist, ‘next Friday’ and ‘Friday week’ do not mean the same thing in all dialects. If today is Monday the 4th, some dialects will take ‘next Friday’ to refer to the first-coming Friday, i.e., Friday the 8th, but ‘Friday week’ to refer to the Friday that belongs to the following week, i.e., Friday the 15th.
- When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?Prepositions end up at the end of sentences that are using phrasal verbs, that is a verb plus a preposition where the preposition isn't starting a prepositional phrase. Phrasal verbs are perfectly okay and are very common in Germanic languages, less common in something like Latin.
- Should sentences like "I wonder..." end with a question mark?This doesn't sound right. I don't think any novel writer would fail to place the question mark at the end of "I wonder if Steve Jobs will be giving the keynote speech at WWDC this year?" if the utterance is being pictured as a question that is inviting a response from the next person speaking in the dialogue.
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