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What is the difference between a week before and a week earlier ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between a week before and a week earlier ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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The main difference is that with the construction, you can ask/answer the question "A week before {what}?"
I left school a week before he got there.
This milk expired a week before my birthday.
The expression "A week earlier" means a week before the context you're currently talking about. If you want to change the context, you'd have to use "than", like:
He got there a week earlier than me.
I thought I got to school early. But he got there a week earlier.
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