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Hotmale Posted 10 years ago
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The next day
Hello,
I've run into this sentence on the internet:
"Abigail asks Jack if he is coming to bed. Jack is staring at a photo album. The next day she goes to visit Len at the police station"
Why does "next day" take the article "the"? I was told that if you taking about a next day in a chronological order, you don't use the article.
Is the quoted sentence a kind of exception?
Thank you
I've run into this sentence on the internet:
"Abigail asks Jack if he is coming to bed. Jack is staring at a photo album. The next day she goes to visit Len at the police station"
Why does "next day" take the article "the"? I was told that if you taking about a next day in a chronological order, you don't use the article.
Is the quoted sentence a kind of exception?
Thank you
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1. Right now it is the 5th of August in Finland. We say things like these:
I'll meet him tomorrow.
I will see him next week / next month.
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He'll come to Helsinki on August 26th, and I'll see him the next/the following day.
He arrived just before last Christmas and I met him the next week.
In other words, the article is used when the
I'll meet him tomorrow.
I will see him next week / next month.
2.
He'll come to Helsinki on August 26th, and I'll see him the next/the following day.
He arrived just before last Christmas and I met him the next week.
In other words, the article is used when the
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