- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Our Todays Meeting or Our meeting that is scheduled for today
We shall discuss it in our today's meeting Or would it be more correct to say something longer like: We shall discuss it in our meeting that is scheduled for today ADDED: There is now also a related thread that is attempting to address the grammaticality of the expression "our today's meeting": Why is “our today's meeting” wrong?
- Reschedule to or reschedule for? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Would you like me to re-schedule to today instead? Would you like me to re-schedule for today instead?
- 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
- Is yesterday a noun, an adjective or an adverb?
They can work as nouns or adverbs For example: "Yesterday was a great day"; here, yesterday works as a noun "I will do that tomorrow"; here, tomorrow works as an adverb
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