So, when does the weekend start?
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So, when does the weekend start?
So, when does the weekend start?
20-06-2008 4:08 PM
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"So we reach the end of another week ..."
I'm at work (on a teabreak) and my week isn't due to finish for another hour, or so.

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20-06-2008 4:21 PM
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Have a nice weekend ! !



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20-06-2008 4:36 PM
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ps the weekend starts after the EOD doesn't it - so if they do not post it until after 10pm [like a couple of weeks ago] then that is it!
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20-06-2008 5:17 PM
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Just thought - it's rather like working for British Gas but the pay's lower

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20-06-2008 5:18 PM
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20-06-2008 5:18 PM
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20-06-2008 5:19 PM
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Quote from: johpal "So we reach the end of another week ..."
Technically, reach suggests coming towards, whereas "reached" would actually suggest that he weekend had started already.
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20-06-2008 5:20 PM
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No, unfortunately, the gas men filled in the hole, but left a space for the tarmac to go back in level,



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20-06-2008 6:07 PM
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Customer / Moderator / If it helped click the thumb / If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
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20-06-2008 6:18 PM
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20-06-2008 6:27 PM
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Quote from: Jameseh Technically, reach suggests coming towards, whereas "reached" would actually suggest that he weekend had started already.
I disagree - as does my computer's dictionary (not the OED), which defines it in this context as 'arrive at; get as far as'.

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20-06-2008 7:04 PM
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Quote from: Chris
Quote the weekend starts after the EOD doesn't it
w00t, the comms section of the EOD has already been sent to todays editor, does that mean I can go home(pub) now?
I would let you home Chris if I was your boss, unfortunately I am not I cannot control your hours...........

but as a retired person


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20-06-2008 7:13 PM
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My weekend has now firmly begun. I arrived home to find the family car on the drive, with a flat tyre (nail firmly embedded). My first task was to fit the spare. I notice too, that the grass on the front lawn is needs mowing. I think I'll go back to work!
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20-06-2008 7:16 PM
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20-06-2008 7:33 PM
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Quote from: johpal Oh dear! This is beginning to have echoes of my English grammar lessons, "present perfect tense", or something? I know they don't have it in German, French, or Dutch...
I know very little about the technicalities of English grammar, so someone correct me if I'm way off base, but I suspect you're thinking of the 'present participle' tense, which is indeed absent from numerous foreign languages. It's the tense used to describe the action of doing something - e.g. 'I am going shopping', 'I am reading a book', and so forth.
Edit: added missing quotation mark.
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