2015年11月18日 · "Due by" implies that there is a set time of when it is due. "The sales report is due by 12pm on Friday." The day something is due follows the time, which is given more importance. The time can be stripped and the sentence …

2011年1月27日 · due to Concern over the propriety of due to is one of those long-lived controversies in which the grounds for objection have changed over time. The present-day objection is to due to used as a preposition in the sense of "owing to" or "because of," but the controversy began in the 18th century with owing.

2010年8月13日 · We postponed our vacation plans due to the oil spill. would usually be rephrased as this: Our vacation was postponed thanks to the oil spill. Although in the second case, due could be substituted. This is because due can also be interpreted as because, which can be taken as a motivator for personal action, while thanks cannot.

The phrase "due diligence" appears to imply that a certain level of diligence is "due" from the party "doing" the diligence to a second party. Whenever I encounter this term, it make me cringe, because the people using it [I review commercial appraisals] seem to be unable to speak of diligence without attaching a "due" in front.

Due to as a prepositional phrase meaning “because of, owing to” has been in use since the 14th century: Due to the sudden rainstorm, the picnic was moved indoors. Some object to this use on the grounds that due is historically an adjective and thus should be used only predicatively in constructions like The delay was due to electrical failure.

2013年1月31日 · With the preposition sense, we can say that it's 2 weeks past due, and that penalties can accrue if it is more than 30 days past due. We can warn that if it goes unpaid until it is 3 months past due we will contact the Sheriff’s Office and arrange for bailiffs to deal with the matter. In all, past due works well, while passed due does not.

2012年5月24日 · Due to often refers back to a whole clause even when there is a notional antecedent, as with 'starvation' in the sentence• • Out in the countryside, two million people are at risk of starvation, due to the failure of the harvest. RECOMMENDATION: it is correct to use due to in both the ways shown

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2012年10月31日 · A test to determine whether due to is being used correctly is to replace it with "caused by" or "attributed to", which is what due to means. If the replacements make sense, due to is correctly used, as it is in "The explosion was due to [caused by or attributed to] carelessness." Source: AGU Grammar and Style Guide 3.1 (Casiopea, #2 16-May-2006 ...

I'd say "within 7 days" SHOULD mean within 7 x 24 hours from now, so if at noon on Monday I'm told "this is due within 7 days" that would mean by noon of the following Monday. But people often take today to be the first day of the count, so if on Monday someone says "within 3 days" they are thinking day 1=today, Monday; day 2=Tuesday, day 3 ...