Timeline for "Planning for next year" vs. "planning for the next year"
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 18:21 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | Personally, I would always say 'following' rather than 'next' in your last line. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 17:55 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think they "mostly mean the same". As your 2014 example clearly shows, you normally only include "the" when referring to a year other than the one immediately after the current year. And even then, only in contexts where the year that came before it has been explicitly mentioned earlier in the discourse. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 17:45 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @MichaelGoldshteyn Yes. When next year means "the year which follows this year", next acts as a determiner, just like the or this. Otherwise, next is just an adjective, and a determiner is required. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 17:42 | comment | added | Michael Goldshteyn | It would seem that the adjective 'next' takes the place of 'the' in the second bullet point, so that the article becomes redundant and can therefore be ommitted. In the fourth bullet point, the article adds meaning and must be present. Is this correct? | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 17:28 | history | answered | Fraser Orr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |