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#1 29-Feb-2016, 19:27make up
Are these sentences correct?
I have to attend to some personal appointments the following Thursday (March 11th) so I plan to take time off work that day. To make up for this time off, I will work this coming Saturday (March 6th).
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#2 29-Feb-2016, 19:29Re: make up
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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#3 01-Mar-2016, 15:19Re: make up
the following Thursday- how about next Thursday?
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#4 01-Mar-2016, 16:16Re: make up
Or "Thursday week".
This Thursday is March 3rd. Next Thursday/Thursday week is March 10th.Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
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#5 01-Mar-2016, 16:42Re: make up
Sorry- I didn't check the calendar.
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#6 01-Mar-2016, 18:26Re: make up
That handy expression was used when I lived in Canada (in Toronto), but it's unknown in AmE.
Originally Posted by emsr2d2
I am not a teacher.
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#7 01-Mar-2016, 23:22Re: make up
We also use "a week [on] Thursday".
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
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#8 11-Mar-2016, 23:09Re: make up
Here in Canada, I think most people use "this Thursday" when they mean the Thursday of this week, and "next Thursday" when they mean the Thursday of next week. But there are exceptions: sometimes people use "next Thursday" when according to the rule above they should say "this Thursday." So it is wise to be cautious and double-check.
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#9 12-Mar-2016, 07:36Re: make up
Here's an example of it being used in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FswDoZKFXVc Originally Posted by GoesStation
It sounded odd to me the first time I heard it, and still does.
