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dido4

Joined: 23 Dec 2005
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:28 pm Post subject: in/of a year

Tim always gets a gift from her mom at the end of/in the year. Which is right, in or of? Thank you.

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Lorikeet

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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: in/of a year

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dido4 wrote:

Tim always gets a gift from her mom at the end of/in the year.

Which is right, in or of?

Thank you.

"of" is correct. Usually Tim is a man's name, in which case it would be "his mom" but it could be short for Timotha, for example, which is a girl's name.

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