Fill in the blanks with by, until or within.
1I sent the parcel today so that she would get it ............... Friday.
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Use "by" for a deadline meaning on or before Friday.
2I have to reach home ............... 7 o'clock.
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Use "by" for a deadline meaning no later than 7 o'clock.
3We waited ............... the rain stopped.
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Use "until" to show that waiting continued up to the time the rain stopped.
4The meeting has been postponed ............... Friday.
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Use "until" when something is delayed and will not happen before Friday.
5Will you wait here ............... I return?
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Use "until" to show that waiting should continue up to the time I return.
6I waited ............... 11 p.m. and then I went home.
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Use "until" because the waiting continued up to 11 p.m.
7I thought that she would arrive ............... 11 o'clock, but she didn't.
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Use "by" for an expected deadline meaning no later than 11 o'clock.
8............... the time we reached the station, the train had already left.
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Use "By" in the fixed phrase "By the time" to mean before or at that time.
9They said that they would finish the job ............... two hours.
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Use "within" to mean before the end of a period of two hours.
10............... the time they found him, he was already dead.
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Use "By" in the fixed phrase "By the time" to mean before or at that time.
11............... the time he realized his mistake, it was too late.
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Use "By" in the fixed phrase "By the time" to show it was already too late then.
12They are going away. They will be away ............... Friday.
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Use "until" because being away continues up to Friday.
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- I sent the parcel today so that she would get it by Friday.
- I have to reach home by 7 o’clock.
- We waited until the rain stopped.
- The meeting has been postponed until Friday.
- Will you wait here until I return?
- I waited until 11 p.m. and then I went home.
- I thought that she would arrive by 11 o’clock, but she didn’t.
- By the time we reached the station, the train had already left.
- They said that they would finish the job within two hours.
- By the time they found him, he was already dead.
- By the time he realized his mistake, it was too late.
- They are going away. They will be away until Friday.