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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.
Jul 1, 2016 · Technically "Bye. Have good weekends" is correct in that he is wishing each individual a good weekend, using the collective noun for all of your weekends. However, colloquially this strikes me as lazy grammar. Expansions would be more like: Bye, I hope each of you has a good weekend; Bye, I hope you all have a good weekend
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".
May 19, 2021 · 0. "At weekends" is not really what one could call "more appropriate", as it does mean the same thing, but it is used more often than "at the weekend": ngram. Without changing the meaning you can use "on" instead of "at" and you find that "on weekends" is much more often used than any other in AmE: ngram. This is not so in BrE: ngram.
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.
Oct 21, 2015 · My dictionaries say "at the weekend, at weekends "British English,"on the weekend, on weekends "American English.over the weekend (both).LDOCE,Oxford Collocations Dictionary Share Improve this answer
Oct 10, 2014 · 1. It’s ONE weekend. There are not multiple weekends, although the experiences of THE weekend definitely vary. They’re all enjoying the one officially designated weekend in their own unique ways (ergo the difference between one “weekend” and many “ways”) Share. Improve this answer. answered Nov 15, 2020 at 12:09.
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 23, 2016 · @user1539343 Because you can have multiple weekends, each of which consists of two days - I work weekends, we've spent many weekends at that cottage – Prof Yaffle Commented May 23, 2016 at 15:07
8. Neither. 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 ...
