- Is it proper grammar to say on today and on tomorrow?
WIthin the context of this dialect, the formation "on today" and "on yesterday" would be considered correct by those speakers, or they wouldn't be saying it that way However (and I cannot back this up with a citation), in general, most English speakers in the US would not use "on" before "today" or "tomorrow "
- Grammatical term for words like yesterday, today, tomorrow
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 –
- 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)
- word choice - Today afternoon vs Today in the afternoon? - English . . .
Neither are clauses, but "today in the afternoon" is grammatical (adverbial phrase of time), while "today afternoon" is not I would also suggest "this afternoon" as a more succinct and idiomatic alternative to "today in the afternoon"
- grammar - Understanding as of, as at, and as from - English . . .
No, "as of" can mean both - 1) As of today, only three survivors have been found 2) As of today, all
- A 17th century colloquial term for children, in the way we use kids today
Wean is used today in both Scotland and Ireland The first source below refers to a written example of wean from early C18th The second source mentions that wee for small (which is a root of wean) dates from C15th So hard to say when wean became common but probably it was in use in C17th wean n a child, especially a young one
- Our Todays Meeting or Our meeting that is scheduled for today
You could say "our meeting" or "today's meeting", or "our meeting today" Your second example "We will discuss it at our meeting that is scheduled for today " is OK grammatically, but it's unnecessarily wordy Try one of these succinct constructions: We will discuss it in our meeting today Or We will discuss it today in our meeting
- Is there an abbr. for Up To Today Date like YTD?
While giving a short comment for the report, to describe that the data is counted from the beginning to today It's just like YTD - Year To Day , except that I don't care about the starting date here
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