- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
No, "as of" can mean both - 1) As of today, only three survivors have been found 2) As of today, all passengers must check their luggage before boarding the plane
- 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
- Todays assumption or todays assumption — which is valid grammar?
The apostrophe indicates possession Without an apostrophe you are indicating plurality Since the point you are trying to convey is that the assumption you made yesterday is no longer valid, the apostrophe is appropriate Yesterday's assumption is no longer valid It's kind of like saying "The assumption of yesterday"
- Why is our todays meeting wrong? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The phrase our today's meeting is commonly used in Indian English, even though other dialects of English frown upon it The mentioned examples in the comments of our today's specials and our today's speaker will, I think, sound off to many speakers, but possibly not as much as our today's meeting
- 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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