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1. I would use 'on' because a weekend is two days (or more). 'At' is more particular, for a smaller place or shorter time, whereas on/in are used for longer durations or larger spaces. "Let's eat at an Italian restaurant at 9pm" against "Let's eat in downtown on Friday". Going by this logic, 'on' should be used.
Nov 28, 2018 · When we use time adverbs with 'this' /this week, this year, this month, etc./, no preposition is necessary. You can express the period 'on Saturday and Sunday' with 'at the weekend' /British English/ or 'on the weekend /American English/.
Aug 16, 2012 · A week begins on a Monday and ends on a Sunday. That is why Sat and Sun are collectively known as the "weekEND". So, for a week beginning on the 24th of a month: (1) 24th would be a Monday. The 29th and the 30th would be the "weekend". (2) The dates from 24 through 30 comprise the "week of the 24th".
Nov 18, 2012 · The latter two sentences have slightly different meanings. "It's the weekend" is an announcement about the date, as in: "Today is Tuesday. Do you know what that means?" "It's a weekend" is the answer to a question about the part of the week two particular days are, as in: "This flyer says that the convention's on March 16-17, 2013.
May 2, 2017 · 1. As has been pointed out several times on this site, Her Majesty and her subjects never do things "ON" the weekend. They do things "on" Saturday, and "on" Sunday, but NEVER "on" the weekend. They do things AT the weekend and OVER the weekend (seldom "during" the weekend). – WS2.
The answer is “this weekend”, as in “I will see her this weekend.”. Depending on which weekend you mean, you could also say “next weekend”, which is the weekend following “this weekend”. “On the weekend” is sometimes used, but sounds odd to me. “During the weekend” would only be applicable if you were clarifying that you ...
Feb 19, 2006 · On the weekend is OK, but not in the weekend. It is confusing, as you would say "in the week", and not on or at the week ! Maybe that's because "in" gives you an idea of being inside something with a duration (the week), while the "end" in the word "weekend" gives you an idea of an extremity instead of a duration.
Dec 2, 2006 · The adjectival or attributive version is generally weekend - weekend bag, weekend sailor. "Something for the weekend," is always so There are no examples of week-end, or weekend being used to mean the end of the week. Edit: Correction, there is one example for definition 1.c "The end (i.e. the last day) of the week; Saturday. dial."
Oct 26, 2005 · "in the weekend long event", "in the weekend profits" are another couple of examples. But I don't think that it applies to the examples from New Zealand (even if they do sound awful to me too). Awful-sounding or not the Kewies may be being logical. Since the weekend is neither a point in time, nor a day, but a period of time, "in" seems more ...
Oct 29, 2018 · 1. In answer to your first question there are two possible ways of talking about a plurality of weekends. "We will get the job finished by working weekends, for the rest of the year", and "We will get the job finished by working at the weekend, for the rest of the year" are saying exactly the same thing. Both are idiomatic.
