How do I state the fact that a person had or received a number of something during this year? I need the sentence to be nominal, i.e. without a predicate. I see two ways of saying it (let’s take rewards as an example):
Which way is more appropriate and sounds better?
When using temporal adjuncts (extra bits of information at the end of the sentence about when something happened), we often use the prepositions in, on or at with a noun phrase afterwards:
However, when we use the words this, that, next or last with these nouns, we don't usually use another preposition:
We also don't usually use prepositions with time words that begin with to- or yester-. This may be because the prefixes to- and yester- mean something like this and last:
The Original Poster's Question
She's won five rewards this year.
She's won five rewards in this year. (X)
The first example is fine. The second one is awkward because it uses in and this together. If we didn't use this then we could use a preposition with the year:
For the Original Poster's verb-less phrase the best option is:
Hope this is helpful!
