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Bookmark or Share- prepositions - 'Next Monday' or 'on next Monday'? - English Language ...9. If you're asking the specific question regarding the preposition 'on', as to whether ' on next Monday ' is valid, then I would say no it isn't, you would never say ' on next Monday '. You would always say ' I will send you the proposal next Monday '. Alternatively you could say ' I will send you the proposal on Monday '.
- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking. "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week.
- "Next Friday" vs. "This Friday" [duplicate] - English Language & Usage ...2. If you say next month, you refer to the "very next" month (the equivalent of "this Friday"), whereas if you say "this month", you refer to the current month in progress (which has no equivalent for a day of the week of course where you would say "today Friday"). So there's a discrepancy depending on the unit level.
- grammar - Which one is correct? the last or last - English Language ...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".
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?5. "Good night" as a greeting was once a feature found almost exclusively in Ireland. In James Joyce's "The Dead", for example, it is used both as greeting: —O, Mr Conroy, said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming. Good night, Mrs Conroy. And as a farewell:
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