What is the meaning of by next week?
What is the meaning of by next week?
“by” here means before.So, “by next week” means before next week,that means “this week”.
IS NEXT NEXT week correct English?
If it’s just the week after the current one, then it’s just “next week”, and “the next week” would not be appropriate. However, if you are talking about a week following some future week – or really any future point in time, then “the next week” may be used and simply saying “next week” would not be appropriate.
How do you use next week in a sentence?
The library will remain closed until next week.
- We’re moving out of our old house next week.
- Goodbye Bill!
- I’m looking forward to your visit next week.
- He will take over Class 9801 next week.
- We need a decision on this by next week.
- This time next week I shall be in Scotland.
- A new hit drama will be stagged next week.
Is “this document needs to be ready next week” grammatical?
Yes, it is grammatical, but the preposition “by” is not needed, since “next week”¹ is a nebulous time period. The sentence has the same meaning without it: “This document needs to be ready next week.”
What does “by next week” mean in grammar?
In this construction the prepositional phrase “by next week” signifies “before the end of next week”. Also, grammar defines the structure of a sentence, rather than the sense of it, so although an expression can be “grammatical” it does not have to be sensible or “standard English” (i.e. in normal use).
Is it okay to say “this document must be ready by 2056”?
It is fine. You can say “this document must be ready by the year 2056” and it is fine. The preposition just needs to be used for time Y, such that X should happen no later than Y. Y does not need to be a specific minute, second, hour, it can be weeks, years, months, millennia and even pragmatically impossible things like:
Is it correct to say by next week or by Wednesday?
As Terrence Hogan says, if you have a meeting every Wednesday, and the person you say this for knows that the document is related to that meeting, then “by next week” is fine, because it’s understood to mean by the Wednesday meeting. I agree with Maurya. The preposition by fixes a deadline.