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Joey_five Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Last Wednesday or this Wednesday???

Hi,

Suppose today is Saturaday and I want to talk about something that happened three days ago. Should I say "this Wednesday" or "last Wednesday" ??

thanks a lot!!
  

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Saturday by the way!
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Messy, indeed Emotion: smile


this past Wednesday
the coming Wednesday (for next week's)
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Hi,

Suppose today is Saturday and I want to talk about something that happened three days ago. Should I say "this Wednesday" or "last Wednesday" ??

One of the keys to understanding this is to realize that the verb tense in your sentence indicates past or future. That's often all you need.

Thus, when speaking of the Wednesday 3 days ago, you c
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Clive Suppose today is Saturday and I want to talk about something that happened three days ago. Should I say "this Wednesday" or "last Wednesday" ??

One of the keys to understanding this is to realize that the verb tense in your sentence indicates past or future. That's often all you need.

Thus, when speaking of the Wednesday 3 days ago, you can say
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This is a problem I often have with my students. I tell them that if the day, or month, is close to the present, the tense of the verb is enough to indicate what time we're talking about. We're in October now. If someone says "last September" it souinds very remote to me and suggests "September last year". As Clive says, "last Wednesday" doesn't mean 10 days ago, but it does sound strange when ta
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Thank you all. I am starting to understand much better now...

But what if I really want to talk what happened ten days ago. Should I say:

"I saw her Wednesday last week/ last week on Wednesday."

thanks again
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I think either of your two convey your meaning, but "last week on Wednesday" seems more natural to my ears.

You could also say "the Wednesday before last."
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Hi again,

Yes, And the same thing for future,

eg I'm going to see her (on the) Wednesday after next.

Best wishes, Clive
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Interesting, for some reason, I refer to the Wednesday 3 days ago as this past Wednesday. When I say or hear last Wednesday I think of the Wednesday 10 days ago referring to last week. Don't know if that is a Massachusetts thing (it s been 25 years since growing up there,) or something peculiar to me.
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