this six days

[sitifan]

He has been on night shift this six days. (A New English Grammar by Zhang Zhenbang, page 187)
Is the expression "this six days" acceptable to native speakers?

 

[jutfrank]

It can make sense in the right context, yes.

 

[SoothingDave]

No. These six days.

 

[jutfrank]

No. These six days.

It could mean 'this [period of] six days'.

 

[sitifan]

This/That few/several months in the countryside have been most eventful. (A New English Grammar by Zhang Zhenbang, page 187)
Are the expressions "this/that few/several months" acceptable to native speakers?

 

[emsr2d2]

This/That few/several months in the countryside have been most eventful. (A New English Grammar by Zhang Zhenbang, page 187)
Are the expressions "this/that few/several months" acceptable to native speakers?

"This" and "That" don't collocate with "have been". They're both singular.

These last few months ... have been ...
Those few months ... were ...

 

[jutfrank]

This/That few/several months in the countryside have been most eventful. (A New English Grammar by Zhang Zhenbang, page 187)

Really? Is this really what appears in the book? That's hard to believe.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

The last few months in the countryside have been quite eventful.

I would hope things wouldn't be too eventful. Otherwise, why not just stay in the city?

 

[5jj]

A New English Grammar by Zhang Zhenbang,

None of the examples you have given us recently from that work has inspired me with any confidence in the writer.

 

[Rover_KE]

I suspect that Zhang Zhenbang is not a native English-speaker.

 

[sitifan]

I suspect that Zhang Zhenbang is not a native English-speaker.

He was not a native English-speaker, but he was a professor of English at several universities in China.
https://baike.baidu.hk/item/章振邦/9328261

 

[Tarheel]

@sitifan Nobody's perfect.

 

[Rover_KE]

... did you miss an indefinite article in "not native English-speaker"?

Yes.

Fixed. Thanks.