"By" preposition
Hello.
I have the next sentence.
We were such a good time that we decided to prolong our stay by another week.
Could someone explain it to me please why it's used with the by preposition?
If i construct the same sentence, I'd say like that:
We were having such a god time that we decided to prolong our stay for one more week.
It looks like it's more explicit.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
by another week; for another week; by one more week; for one more week They're all the same in terms of meaning. CJ
- by another week; for another week; by one more week; for one more week They're all the same in terms of meaning.
- CJ
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by another week; for another week; by one more week; for one more week
They're all the same in terms of meaning.
CJ
0In that sentence "by another week", "by one more week", "for another week" and "for one more week" are all possible and mean the same thing. This is sense 3 of "by" at https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/by : "Indicating the amount or size of a margin". It is the writer's choice to use "
0"by", AHD online ( https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=by ), def 7. b.: "To the extent of: shorter by two inches."
It's normal English. You version is perfectly fine, too. But I think that "another" and "one more" are redundant with "prolong" and suggest that you had extende
0dhomachevsky"By" preposition
Among the examples shown in the links below you should be able to find a lot of uses of "by" in the same sense as in your sentence.
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