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Snappy Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

The last fiscal year or just last fiscal year?

In my understanding, "the" is not required before the word "last" when we refer to things that happened last week, month, year, etc.

Are the following sentences okay?

Will you show me the company's sales figures of last year?
Will you show me the company's sales figures of last fiscal year?
  

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They are right. "Last" doesn't take determiner when means 'past from now'.

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  • "Last" doesn't take determiner when means 'past from now'.
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They are right.

"Last" doesn't take determiner when means 'past from now'.
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SnappyIn my understanding, "the" is not required before the word "last" when we refer to things that happened last week, month, year, etc.
The showing of the company's sales figures did not happen last year. You are only using "of last year" to indicate which sales figures you are talking about. Therefore you may use the
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Hi CalifJim,

do you mean that if we have "last+period" postmodifying a noun, we can either use or not use the determiner?

Because in your sentence (Could you show me last year's sales figures for the company?) the showing of the company's figures did not happen last year either, but I think it wouldn't be right to use "the". Or could we use it?

Thanks in advanc
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tarirotariBecause in your sentence (Could you show me last year's sales figures for the company?) the showing of the company's figures did not happen last year either, but I think it wouldn't be right to use "the".
I agree that it wouldn't be right to use "the" in that sentence.

You would use "the last year" to mean the last of a series of year
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