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28 de nov. de 2009 · A handy rule of thumb (although there are several exceptions to learn), is to think of units of time from the smallest to the biggest. The time uses AT - at two o'clock. A day uses ON - on Monday, on 4th July. Anything bigger (months, seasons,years,decades etc) uses IN - in June, in (the) winter, in 1990.
11 de nov. de 2008 · Nov 11, 2008. #2. In winter or in the winter - in many contexts either will be acceptable. Sometimes it is a matter of which sounds best. Sometimes it must be one or the other. If you were talking about a particular period of time - say a year that you spent in Birmingham - then you would have to say "In the winter we didn't go out much ...
11 de ene. de 2017 · In my opinion, the sentence should goes like: my family moved to Shanghai during the winter holidays or my family moved to Shanghai on my winter holidays or my family moved to Shanghai in winter. Still, some students asked me if they could say "on the winter holiday "or "in the winter holiday". I didn't expect that and don't know how to explain ...
13 de nov. de 2010 · England, English. Nov 13, 2010. #4. There is only one winter at a time, so winters refers to several winters over a number of years: "I spent the last five winters in Florida"; "Many winters have come and gone since I last saw you". If you are talking about this winter, or one winter in the past, it is always singular: "Winter has come at last ...
22 de sept. de 2017 · UK. English - England. Sep 22, 2017. #2. Sasha Ivanov said: I don't know how those early settlers managed to get through the winter. (Merriam-Webster) At first glance I decided that "the winter" here is referring to the season in general. But now I think it's about one particular winter that happened to be especially harsh.
23 de dic. de 2018 · Of course, I know those names (winter, day and night) are sometimes used as common ones as in "I spent a spring in the village last year," and "Many nights later we met again." A year is divided into 12 parts, and each part is named as a proper noun respectively January, February, March ---and December.
26 de sept. de 2008 · If something transpired during an entire winter evening, I'd write "in a winter evening." For example: "The book was fascinating, and I read it from cover to cover in a single winter evening." Otherwise, I'd almost invariably use "on a winter evening" for an even that occurs at a specific point in time during that evening.
9 de jul. de 2009 · In Spain football clubs take a winter break. The clubs do not play at Christmas because they are ON their winter break. The same as they are ON holiday. I cannot see IN being used here except for a longer sentence, e.g. In winter, break the ice and collect some water.
31 de ene. de 2022 · Jan 31, 2022. #3. "Winter has come " is in the perfect tense, and the perfect exists to express completion. (that is what the Latin "perfectus" means - "completed") Incidentally, some verbs can take "is" rather than "has" for the perfect, and the verb "come" is one of them. So you will also sometimes see "Winter is come", which means exactly ...
24 de jul. de 2011 · However, in Webster's dictionary, winter is pronounced without flapping while etymology with flapping. It is said that Webster's pronunciation is generally perceived as standard by most Americans. So it may be assumed that winter is less flapped than etymology, although it is not clear how much. Probably, the consonant n before t makes it less ...
