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As mentioned in my previous thread, I'm still reading "Essential Business Grammar and Usage" to give short lessons to my colleagues who want improve their English.
Now we are reaching UNIT 78 (wow, in June it was only Unit 3!) from "Functions" section (saying when), and here's a sentence I got stuck at...
My understanding is when we are talking about due/deadline, we usually use "by".
e.g.
We have to pay the invoice by the end of the month.
My questions:
1. Does the sentence (We have until the end of the month to pay the invoice) mean "we have to pay the invoice by the end of the month but we still have time until the due date"?
2. If yes, is it possible to change the word order, i.e. "We have to pay the invoice until the end of the month" without changing the meaning?
Now we are reaching UNIT 78 (wow, in June it was only Unit 3!) from "Functions" section (saying when), and here's a sentence I got stuck at...
(After introducing in, at and on)
USES 1. We also use other prepositions to say when something happens.
....
We have until the end of the month to pay the invoice.
My understanding is when we are talking about due/deadline, we usually use "by".
e.g.
We have to pay the invoice by the end of the month.
My questions:
1. Does the sentence (We have until the end of the month to pay the invoice) mean "we have to pay the invoice by the end of the month but we still have time until the due date"?
2. If yes, is it possible to change the word order, i.e. "We have to pay the invoice until the end of the month" without changing the meaning?