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Bookmark or Share- grammar - I was there for two days or I was there two days? - English ...1: I fed my neighbour's cat three days. 2: She listened five hours. 3: They paid the mortgage two decades. 4: He pestered her five days. 5: I read [a book] three hours. I don't like any of the above without for. But I've no problem with... 5: I've lived here twenty years. 6: We stayed six weeks. 7: They waited two hours. 8: He slept eight hours.
- "Passed" or "Past" - Referring to a time in past compared to now(1) past (plural pasts) The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future. ...
- Do "three consecutive days" mean the same as "three straight days"?That is reliable authority. "Five consecutive days" and "five straight days" have the same denotative meaning. "She stayed at that hotel for five consecutive days" and "she stayed at that hotel for five straight days" denote the same thing, and neither implies that she never left the hotel's premises throughout those five days.
- prepositions - Ten days have passed TO/OF/FOR some event - English ...Ten days of the event have passed", or in other words "Almost 10 days of Apple's WWDC 2015 event have passed". To my thinking, saying "Almost ten days have passed since Apple’s WWDC 2015 event" means "Apple's WWDC 2015 event ended almost ten days ago". –
- has/have - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeA ten years has passed that I will never forget. Again, ten years is considered singular and so I can use a singular verb, and I can use the indefinite article before the singular 'ten years'. The question seems to be about the following: An arduous ten years have passed. We know that with "arduous" we can say: An arduous ten years has passed.
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