2013年10月12日 · If you say "I have seen that movies six times last month" you saw it six times in September. Also... you should not mix present perfect with a time phrase. "I have seen that movie six times last month" should be worded "I saw the movie six times last month". This is because present perfect has a connection with the present, but last month is past.

"Last month" refers to the month before the current one. However, it's never used as "the last month", which instead refers to the last in a series of months (for instance, the last month of the quarter). "The previous month" could be talking about something that happened a month before a specified month, which is also in the past.

2012年10月31日 · Since you asked about "last month's pay slip" and the date of your question was October 31st, it is implied that last month of which you spoke was September. Therefore, the pay slip in question was distributed during the month of September. You may also use the phrase "the previous month" in lieu of "last month".

I would recommend specifying the month. For example "in November 2021". "The month before last" is fine in spoken conversation, but if you were writing something which a reader might come across months later, it would be confusing or misleading. Specifying the …

Today is Oct. 13, 2010. It can be argued that in the last 3 months would be intuitively understood as the time frame from 8/13/2010 to 10/12/2010, while in the past three months would mean July, August, and September.

Avoid the use of last as a synonym for latest if it might imply finality. The last time it rained, I forgot my umbrella, is acceptable. But: The last announcement was made at noon may leave the reader wondering whether the announcement was the final announcement, or …

2014年7月2日 · As in comments, "two months ago" or "the month before last" are common ways to phrase this. As also noted on comments, some folks will drop "the" from "the month before last." That's a pretty informal mode of speech, but bear in mind that there's another "month" implied in the phrase already "the month before last [month]."

2015年1月29日 · Last is more often used with days - I went there last Tuesday, but you can also say I went there on Tuesday. There is really no rule here but it just becomes a matter of usage. Perhaps 'last' emphasises that it was the most recent past Tueday, and not a previous Tuesday. The same sort of principles apply to using 'last' with month.

2020年3月27日 · "Only last month, I heard great things about the clinic while attending a conference." (Note I think that this following syntax, that should not include a comma in my opinion, is not interpretable as a case of invalidation or emphasis. Only last month did I hear great things about the clinic while attending a conference.) II examples for "only"

According to Google Ngram viewer, "in the last week of..." is much more common. This fits with my feeling as a native speaker, too: in or during for a range of time like a week, month, or season ("in the last week of August"); on for a specific day ("on August tenth"); at for a …