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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
- 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 "
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 –
- american english - On the weekend vs this weekend - English Language . . .
As has been pointed out several times on this site, Her Majesty and her subjects never do things "ON" the weekend They do things "on" Saturday, and "on" Sunday, but NEVER "on" the weekend They do things AT the weekend and OVER the weekend (seldom "during" the weekend) –
- grammar - at the weekend vs at weekends - English Language Usage . . .
"At weekends" is not really what one could call "more appropriate", as it does mean the same thing, but it is used more often than "at the weekend": ngram Without changing the meaning you can use "on" instead of "at" and you find that "on weekends" is much more often used than any other in AmE: ngram This is not so in BrE: ngram
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