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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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from one day

Is 'from one day to the next' the correct and natural sequence of words to use in this context?

He was making 10K a month. He stopped making 10K from one day to the next. He went from being well off to poor after he lost his job.

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Anonymous Is 'from one day to the next' the correct and natural sequence of words to use in this context? No. The idea of the phrase is a continuing activity, usually in a negative context: I don't know what I'm doing from one day to the next (= I don't know what I'm doing each day).

  • Anonymous Is 'from one day to the next' the correct and natural sequence of words to use in this context?
  • No.
  • The idea of the phrase is a continuing activity, usually in a negative context: I don't know what I'm doing from one day to the next (= I don't know what I'm doing each day).
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AnonymousIs 'from one day to the next' the correct and natural sequence of words to use in this context?
No. The idea of the phrase is a continuing activity, usually in a negative context: I don't know what I'm doing from one day to the next (= I don't know what I'm doing each day).

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