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Joined: 8/8/2013. Posts: 1. Neurons: 3. Location: India. A timeline is the threshhold of the time till when a task is supposed to be achieved, begining from the point of its mention till its mentioned end. A timeframe is a defined amount of time assigned to a task.
One wording focuses on the time-frame that the event occurred. ...in the years following their captivity. The other wording focuses on the duration of the event. ...for several years since their captivity. Switching the wording changes the message in the sentence.
work outwards from the progressive she is smiling now she is always smiling the present simple is for repeated or habitual events, not an ongoing action she always smiles when she sees her dog that is a habit, a repeated action she is always smiling that is a progressive - whenever you see her, at that time she is always smiling. The timeframe ...
Hi, SpookyCat! The phrase would be "one week's time," or "two weeks' time," or five months' time." It's the time pertaining to a week (how much time is in a week), so it's like the week "owns" that amount of time, which is why there's an apostrophe. And of course one week would be 's and two weeks would be s'.
Hey! I have a simple problem but I simply can't wrap my head around this one... Should I write: "within a three month period" or "within a three monthS' period" The second one makes more sense from a grammatical point of view, given that it is "a period of three months", but somehow the first sentence simply sounds better...
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The only difference I can see is that of emotion. The first sentence is 'flat' - a simple statement. When you add 'ever', you add the feeling of 'surprise' and/or frustration. The "first time ever" for something is a 'big thing'. I've been driving for forty years, and this is the first time ever I've made an error!
The term "inaugural" simply means 'that which occurs for the first time', whether it is a daily, weekly, or annual affair, etc. has no effect on its correctness here. Inaugural does not imply annual. It could be the first of many planned biennial celebrations of something, or weekly, or whatever.
PM (or P.M. or pm or p.m.) is the abbreviation for "post meridiem", Latin for "after midday" or "in the afternoon". 1:30 AM is the typical AmE way of writing "one thirty in the morning". AM (or A.M. or am or a.m.) is for "ante meridiem", Latin for "before noon" or "in the morning".) "One thirty in the morning" would be 0130 by the 24-hour clock ...
Neurons: 53,603. Location: Karlín, Praha, Czech Republic. Luker4 wrote: OK, in my English lessons from the '50 they use "at what time" so I guess the English language from that era was more correct than nowadays. No. People who went to school in the 1930s considered their English more correct than that of the 1950's.