'Year' or 'Years'? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The second and final year gives the impression that you mean one specific year, which was at the same time your second, as well as your final year. For example: In the fifth and last year of the war, the …
How do you show possession with the word "year" ("year's" vs."years")?
Is this the correct spelling of year's in this context? I'm not a native English speaker/writer, but I do consider myself fluent, and this spelling tickled something in the back of my brain. If it matters, the …
What differences are there between "annually", "yearly", and "every …
10 Either annually or yearly can and frequently does replace ‘every year’ as none of the phrases is limited by the number of occurrences, except to the extent that what happens twice a year is strictly …
capitalization - How should the year be capitalized? - English Language ...
A third says a year number names a unique year and must be treated as a proper noun, citing The Winston Grammar Program by Paul E. Erwin. On wedding invitations, etiquette authorities agree, the …
prepositions - "In this year" versus "this year" - English Language ...
3 In this year is a prepositional phrase with this year as the object. This year by itself is a noun phrase. Both can be used to place an event within the current year, but this year is much more natural. (I …
Which is correct — "a year" or "an year"? [duplicate]
The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an. Yet, we tend to write a year. Why?
What's the difference between "a year", "per year" and "out of a year"?
3 7 months a year means 7 months for each/every year. "Per" in English is used to mean "for each". Therefore 7 months per year = 7 months for each year. 7 months out of a year just comes across as …
Difference between "ten years old" and "ten-year-olds"
Ten year old may be used as an adjective, but only attributively ("a ten year old boy"). And your last sentence is back to front: ten years old is an adjectival phrase like brainy, while ten year olds is a …
Are "y", "m", and "d" the singular and plural abbreviations for "year ...
Wikipedia disagrees with your first pronouncement: 'There is no universally accepted symbol for the year as a unit of time. The International System of Units does not propose one. A common abbreviation in …
When to use “in the last year”, “last year” and “in the past year”?
When you say "the last year" you think of a row of things and you choose the thing at the end. When you say "the past year" you think that an event has gone by or passed. If I would look at Google N-gram …