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  1. What does "day's" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jan 9, 2014 · The fourth example is the correct interpretation of day's, but with two things to keep in mind. First, in your conclusion you flipped the words around incorrectly *; the journey "belongs to" the …

  2. "Vacation days" or "days off" - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Oct 24, 2011 · In most organizations, vacation days are usable at the employee's discretion, up to a certain yearly limit. Days off is a more informal phrase that includes a variety of kinds of paid-not-to …

  3. Two days "is" or "are"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jun 18, 2017 · 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.

  4. Fill in your application up to 7 days prior to your arrival

    Feb 2, 2023 · It is a bit ambiguous but, given that the system would not allow you to complete the form 12 days before your planned arrival, the 7 day period is obviously a maximum rather than a …

  5. adverbs - The variations of in/for the last few days - English Language ...

    Jan 18, 2015 · This same question was recently asked by you on English Language Learners wasn't it? I believe the answer there was that none of them are correct because all of them should say, "the …

  6. time - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Sep 16, 2022 · The potential ambiguity is because in "within 10 days before the flight", the following noun phrase "10 days before the flight" has a form that would generally cause it to be interpreted as …

  7. meaning - Past few days or the past few days? - English Language ...

    Oct 23, 2018 · So when we say 'the past few days' we mean the complete set of 'past few days', not just some of them, and which means this time phrase matches the tense. Do we use the phrase 'past few …

  8. word choice - What are the abbreviations for days of the week ...

    It will be used in a tabular data program to show information about free work days of employed and each column can't have enought space to include full week day name. For "common form" I mean, what …

  9. Present perfect with 'in the last 10 days'

    May 14, 2020 · Both in the last week and in the past indicate a period of time leading up to now. So they're not referring to a past time and are compatible with the present perfect. Specifically, the …

  10. 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 …