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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
Nowadays vs today - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Nowadays and today are both perfectly acceptable You could also say these days, in recent times and at present or presently If your teacher prefers that you don't use nowadays I would follow her instructions just because there are so many alternatives and she is the one grading your paper
How to address today and the following 9 days Would you think "the next 10 days" includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days?
Is there such a thing as a proper verb, like a proper noun? Unlike common nouns, proper names are already definite Yes, today's Hyde Park may be different from yesterday's, but such applications have special meaning Common and proper nouns differ grammatically Spelling is immaterial
Precise meaning of Last N days, weeks, months or years Today is Monday Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at midnight on Sunday No one would refer to anything occurring today, yesterday or the day before as taking place last week or in the last two weeks I wouldn't worry about it
When is an event so old that the phrase the other day no longer . . . I usually say that something happened "the other day" when it was the day before yesterday, or possibly a few days ago In fact, I even feel that I may be misleading in describing an event that happened, say, 4 days ago as occurring "the other day " My personal limit is a few days, maybe a week if you're stretching it
word choice - In the last 3 months vs in the past 3 months . . . Today is Oct 13, 2010 It can be argued that in the last 3 months would be intuitively understood as the time frame from 8 13 2010 to 10 12 2010, while in the past three months would mean July, August, and September
Understanding as of, as at, and as from Collins concurs: up to, on, or from (a specified time) Most dictionaries give the first two senses as listed by Wikipedia, but Garner [A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage; Bryan A Garner] disagrees: But as of now does not mean 'at present'; rather it means 'up to the present time' [It] is today totally unobjectionable in AmE