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- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time
- Whats the difference between day and date?
a unit of time (e g , this task would take 2 days to complete) A date on the other hand usually has the month and the year along with the day: the 21st February 2011 It also has a fixed quality I think I was wondering if there are any other differences between day and date, and when it's correct to choose one over the other
- I remember the day where vs. I remember the day when
As the other answerers suggested, the day when seems to be very common In most cases both the day when and the day where refer to time, not place; but the day where is a bit archaic In my research, the only instance I found in which the day where refers to a place – not time – is in the book The London Encyclopedia: or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical
- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Words exist to label periods of time - like week which represents 7 days and fortnight which is used for a 14-day period Are there other such words used for certain numbers of consecutive days?
- 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
- What is the difference between: two-day and two days
0 two days refers to the number of days two-day refers to the duration of something If you are French, think about the difference between jour and journee
- Gone are the days when . . . Is this expression often used?
Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents Gone too are the days when communication was top-down Gone are the days of local entertainers coming to play or perform free
- Origin and usage of day of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is an expression I have heard used many times in conversational U S English but cannot recall ever seeing in writing: day of as an adverb, omitting the object of the preposition Examples:
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