Sentence of the Week #7

[From Michelle Yeoman:]

Editing Solution: Last Week’s Sentence

Welcome to the seventh installment in this series. As a reminder, below is Sentence of the Week #6:

The annual meeting will be at Friday, January 21.

As some of you noted, the error in this sentence is use of the preposition at. The correct preposition is on. Thus, the corrected sentence reads as follows:

The annual meeting will be on Friday, January 21.

Here are a few guidelines for using at, in, and on with regard to time:

• Use at when referring to a specific time (“We will meet at 2 p.m.”).
• Use on when referring to a day (“We will meet on Tuesday.”). On is still used when a day is followed by a month (“We will meet on Tuesday, April 20.”).
• Use in when referring to the length of time from the present until an event (“We will meet in one week.”) or to the month, year, or both during which something will occur (“She will graduate in May 2013.”).

I look forward to seeing you at the same time in one week!

Sentence of the Week #7:

The sentence below has 1 definite error:

We recorded the followings: height, weight, temperature, speed, and age.

Please correct the error, and submit the corrected sentence and any remarks as a comment on this post. I plan to post and discuss the solution next week.

Do you have a sentence that you would like us to consider using as the Sentence of the Week? Please e-mail submissions to Michelle at msyeoman@gmail.com with the subject line “Sentence of the Week”. Submissions should be your own work—don’t nominate a colleague’s writing :). 

Please also feel free to e-mail suggestions relating to this series.