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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
- Preposition: . . . lt;at, in, on gt; the weekend? | WordReference Forums
On the weekend does not necessarily refer to any particular weekend, in the same way that "this weekend" would, although you can use "On weekends, I wash the car", or "On the weekend, I wash the car" for a more generalised
- 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 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
- 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 "
- 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) –
- 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
- 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
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