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- word usage - Do I need to add an article before weekend? - English . . .
"It's weekend" is abnormal and ungrammatical "It's Saturday" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic "It's the weekend" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic "It's a weekend" is normal, grammatical, and idiomatic The latter two sentences have slightly different meanings "It's the weekend" is an announcement about the date, as in: "Today is
- 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
- 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
- This weekend vs Next weekend [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Following this definition, "next weekend" will always mean the weekend with the start date in closes proximity in time If the phrase is used during a weekend, of course, you'd be referring to the weekend following the one you are currently experiencing However, the issue gets more complicated if you look to other definitions
- Preposition: . . . lt;at, in, on gt; lt;the weekend, weekends gt;?
Namlan asked a question that wasn't answered in this thread and doesn't seem to have been answered elsewhere in the forum - weekends, without the definite article
- On at for over the weekend in American English
On is slightly vague (possibly deliberately so) and would suggest some time during the weekend, or possibly the whole weekend For the weekend could mean most of the weekend and possibly the entire weekend, and over the weekend explicitly means the whole weekend — in this context As @JeffSahol points out, in other contexts (e g , I'll fix
- word choice - Weekend vs Weekends for multiple people? - English . . .
Should weekend be singular since there is only one weekend being referred to or should it be plural since there are multiple weekend experiences occurring (one for each employee) If it's interchangeable is there a particular grammatical justification for this or is it just a unique aspect of the word 'weekend'?
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