Again, saying Sunday next week doesn’t work because many people believe next week begins with a Sunday. Whereas, if you believe in weekends, next week begins with a Monday. On a Thursday, you could say Sunday next week. One person would think you are referring to 3 days in the future, and another would think 10 days in the future. So your way still causes confusion.

The football match begins at 7.30 and ends at 9.15. So during this time, for example at 8.30, Kevin will be watching the match.Yet another future tense is the future perfect (will have + v-ed). We use this tense for an action that will be completed by a particular point in the future: We use the future continuous for situations or actions that will be in progress at a certain time in the future. If you read the final part of my post you’ll see that I believe that the word “week” has been dropped from the phrase(something that’s not uncommon in English) so “this week Monday” or “next week Monday” is possibly where it started but in some areas has morphed into the confusing “this” and “next” we have now. All descriptive sentences contain tense. If we use past tense, than “this” means this past. Conversely, if we’re speaking in future tense, it becomes this coming. Last Tuesday is referencing past tense, so it would be the Tuesday before this past Tuesday. If it’s Thursday, I can say two days ago was this past Tuesday, or just this Tuesday (combined with past tense), and that last Tuesday was 9 days ago.

Here, we are talking about something that will already be happening ( I’ll be working/we’ll be flying) at a point that is referred to in the future (nine/this time next week). What my original post says is “It’s not at all absurd to suggest that next Thursday takes place in the following week unless you’ve passed Thursday already this week.”

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Whatever the beliefs of usage it’s clear that being precise on the date is the best way I found of not getting confused. Using this logic, for days, this should refer to the day coming in the next 6 days (this week), while next should refer to the day in the next 7-13 days (the next week). Note, this should not be used on the day before, or on the day itself, when we would use tomorrow or today (but continue to use next for the following Friday).