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Sep 8, 2011 · 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 ...
Nov 28, 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.
Jan 11, 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 ...
Nov 13, 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 ...
Sep 26, 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.
Nov 19, 2016 · in winter. 补充一下：in the winter和in winter的区别. in the winter是特指的某个冬天. 比如:In the winter,I came to Haerbin for the first time. 这个冬天,我第一次来到了哈尔滨. 而 in winter是泛指冬天. 比如:It always snows in Haerbin in winter. 哈尔滨的冬天总会下雪. 15.
Sep 22, 2017 · The winters kill many flowers -> a series of winters that have already been mentioned; are known by speaker and listener; are commonly known, and/or are specific. A winter kills many flowers -> an example of a winter; any winter; one winter. Last edited: Sep 22, 2017.
Dec 23, 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.
Oct 26, 2009 · An open winter is a winter free from frost. The term may derive from the observation that ports and harbors remain open during such a winter because they are not blocked by ice. But back to the original question: I would be careful about using this, because many speakers will be unfamiliar with the term.
Jul 24, 2011 · For winter, I say ['wɪ.nɚ] in casual speech (when speaking informally, quickly, etc.), and ['wɪn.tʰɚ] in emphatic speech (when stressing a point, or when winter is the focus of the discussion, or formally or even haphazardly perhaps ). The same is true for me with Internet and Innernet (and maybe even Outernet ).
