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at new year on new years eve | WordReference Forums Hello, I have difficulty understanding some prepositions of time like at and on in these examples: AT New Year ON New Year's Eve I think for "on New Year's Eve" the preposition is ON because it solely refers to the night when we celebrate the end of the year, the bells ring, we kiss and party
lt;on at gt; New Years Eve - WordReference Forums Dear all, Which preposition should I use? <On at> New Year's Eve For example, in the following sentences: In China, people have a custom to stay up <at> the New Year's Eve until midnight I think this is why people have the custom of having dumplings <on> New Year’s Eve I'm not sure whether they are correct and I don't know when to use which Thank you!
On New Years Eve + at night = ? [Eve = evening or whole day?] I have fewer reservations about 'the night of New Year's Eve', so your sentences are fine for me We do say things like 'New Year's Eve is a university holiday' here, and that clearly refers to the entire day In Hong Kong 'Chinese New Year's Eve' is a pubic holiday and offices are shut on the day
at on New Years day - WordReference Forums ¡Hola! ¿Qué preposición debo poner delante de New year's eve o New year's day? ¿on o at? Creo que es on, porque se refieren a un día concreto y delante de los días se pone on, pero también sé que se dice at Christmas así que estoy confusa Moderator's note: Two threads have been merged to
What is New Years? | WordReference Forums Does "New Year's" refer to New Year's holiday, which consists of December 31 and January 1? "New Years's" refers to the end of the year It does not mean those 2 days In most places in the US, Jan 1 is a holiday But Dec 31 often is not a holiday "New Year's Eve" refers to the evening and night of Dec 31, when many people celebrate
in the last two years for the past two years - WordReference Forums What is the difference between the two expressions "in the last two years"and "for the past two years"? Googling, I found both of them in large quantities, "in the last two years" dominating markedly, though
a few years later in a few years | WordReference Forums This makes no sense, because later means “after a specific time or event”, and no such time or event is specified in your sentence It just begs the question: later than what? But you could say “in a few years’ time” or “a few years from now”
Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior VS first, second, third, fourth . . . No there's no difference in meaning, but using the ordinal number emphasizes the number of years the person has been in college But 'freshman' is on its way out of fashion (or perhaps it's already out of fashion), at least in American colleges and universities The gender-linked -man ending is annoying The new term is 'first-year student ' 'First-year' is also used as a noun: "I have three
the difference between for years and in years - WordReference Forums For an explanation of the difference between "in X years" and "for X years" (which is a separate question to the one you have asked in this thread), these other threads may be of use to you: Preposition: which I had been using <for, in> the last three years for or in three years of the infection that can kill humans