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- At on (the) weekend (s) - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Whereas "at 9 o'clock" implies starting at 9, but continuing for an flexible length of time; similarly "at Christmas" implies starting at some point during the Christmas period, not necessarily "on Christmas Day"; "at the weekend" implies some point during the weekend which could either be Saturday or Sunday or both
- by the end of the week vs. by the weekend - WordReference Forums
Saying 'by the weekend' takes me to any point in the period of time saturday-sunday (probably from friday afternoon) because I'm a student As a student my week is made up of 5 days, from monday to friday, so the end of the week for me is friday, when my last class at school actually finishes
- Difference between at this weekend and this weekend
When we use time adverbs with 'this' this week, this year, this month, etc , no preposition is necessary You can express the period 'on Saturday and Sunday' with 'at the weekend' British English or 'on the weekend American English
- Weekend vs weekends - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
@FumbleFingers But if the boss says he needs it by Monday morning, you might say "It's ok, I'll do it at the weekend" (Or you could say "I'll do it over the weekend ) An American would in all likelihood say "Ok, I'll do it on the weekend" "I work weekends" is used in a different context - I would suggest –
- at in the weekend - WordReference Forums
"in the weekend long event", "in the weekend profits" are another couple of examples But I don't think that it applies to the examples from New Zealand (even if they do sound awful to me too) Awful-sounding or not the Kewies may be being logical Since the weekend is neither a point in time, nor a day, but a period of time, "in" seems more
- Weekend or week-end: hyphen or not? | WordReference Forums
The adjectival or attributive version is generally weekend - weekend bag, weekend sailor "Something for the weekend," is always so There are no examples of week-end, or weekend being used to mean the end of the week Edit: Correction, there is one example for definition 1 c "The end (i e the last day) of the week; Saturday dial "
- using phrase weekend of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
So technically part of a weekend starts at the beginning and another weekend starts at the end of the week So when someone says, for example, the weekend of the 24th (the 24th being a Monday) they are not using good grammar or reference The 24th doesn’t fall on a weekend day therefor there is NO “weekend of the 24th
- This Past Weekend vs Last weekend | WordReference Forums
If you announce that the class scheduled for last weekend of the month will be held at Buster's Bar, you cannot say that it will be the past weekend A rule: If you are talking about some activity which took place in the ago, past weekend and last weekend would be interchangeable if they are talking about the same week end
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