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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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is the difference between: two-day and two days
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
- 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:
- What are the abbreviations for days of the week? [closed]
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 are the abbreviations that is more used in programs
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