For the last time has no hits except the title of a song. My guess is that for the last time is more literary. Right?I don't really understand why you're asking whether they mean the same thing. Where does that get you? Why not wonder what the differences are? Surely, as a budding genius writer, you ought to be developing a sensitivity of subtlety and nuance. Am I wrong?
Look, with all due respect, you can help me if you want.What do you mean "no hits"? On a Google search? I get 320 million. Why are you doing a Google search, anyway? How's that going to help?
On Google Books, there are many sentences with one last time, whereas there are no sentences with for the last time. On normal Google, all for the last time results are about a song titled such. Which is why I assumed for the last time is more literary. Have I got it wrong? If I have got it wrong, what is the right thing?Believe it or not, I am trying. Never mind.
Well, in that scene, the character just wants to get rid of that object. Neither does he have trouble letting it go nor is he giving an ultimatum. So what should I use?Do they mean different things? Possibly. "One last time" seems to mean you have trouble letting go. (It's more poignant, I think.) "For the last time" seems to have sense of an ultimatum.
You need to think about what it is you want to say. We cannot tell you what is in your head.Well, in that scene, the character just wants to get rid of that object. Neither does he have trouble letting it go nor is he giving an ultimatum. So what should I use?
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