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“last” and "past" have different meanings.
On the one hand, if you use "the last/past week":
1. The original version of "past" is "pass", so "in the past week" means "the week which has just past" compared with the time when the speaker is saying these words.
2. While “last” means "something happens at the end of a period of time", so you can use "the last week of April/may/my holiday" to refer to "the week at the end of that month/holiday, with no other weeks left". Based on this meaning, you can use "the last week" to refer to "the week nearest to the present time"
On the other hand, you can use "in the past" to refer to "the time before now",but you cannot use "in the last". There is an usage of "to the last" means "until the end of an event or somebody' s life", where the emphasis is on the meaning of "till the end".
0 votedApril 10, 20170- What does the pronoun "it" refer to?
Hello to anyone who bumps into this topic.
I have been reading Cognitive Grammar by Langacker for a long time. Although I find it not so difficult to read as when I start to do it, I have a lot of questions through this reading process. For example, "The subject of a clause is a nominal that elaborates the trajector of the process it designates." I have look up the word "designate" in the dictionary, but I cannot figure out the content of the pronoun "it". If "it" refers to the "nominal", what is the object of the verb "designate"? "the process" or "the trajector of the process"?
Really thankful if anyone can help me with that.
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