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- Is it proper grammar to say on today and on tomorrow?
In my town, people with PhD's in education use the terms, "on today" and "on tomorrow " I have never heard this usage before Every time I hear them say it, I wonder if it is correct to use the wor
- Today Was vs Today Is - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Today means "the current day", so if you're asking what day of the week it is, it can only be in present tense, since it's still that day for the whole 24 hours In other contexts, it's okay to say, for example, "Today has been a nice day" nearer the end of the day, when the events that made it a nice day are finished (or at least, nearly so)
- Grammatical term for words like yesterday, today, tomorrow
The 2002 reference grammar by Huddleston and Pullum et al , The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, would consider words like yesterday, today, tonight, and tomorrow as pronouns (specifically, deictic temporal pronouns) Related info is in CGEL pages 429, 564-5
- Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
- meaning - How does the word today make sense? - English Language . . .
2) This answer, while helpfully giving former versions of 'today', is in no way actually addressing the OP's question of why 'to', since the ostensible meaning of 'to' doesn't make literal sense Why is 'today' instead of say 'this-day' or why didn't we keep 'on the day' which also doesn't make literal sense?
- Hypernym for words that refer to a specific point in time like now . . .
[6] now yesterday today tomorrow this morning tonight last night tomorrow night last week next week two days ago in two weeks in a week's time these days in earlier times The temporal counterparts of spatial here and there are now and then, but while there is readily used both deictically and anaphorically, then is almost always anaphoric
- grammaticality - What day is it today? vs. What day is today . . .
The last example means something different, though “What day is (it) today?” refers to the day of the week, not the date
- Nowadays vs today - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
14 Nowadays and today are both perfectly acceptable You could also say these days, in recent times and at present or presently If your teacher prefers that you don't use nowadays I would follow her instructions just because there are so many alternatives and she is the one grading your paper
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