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- 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
- american english - Origins and history of on tomorrow, on today . . .
The phrases " on tomorrow," " on today," and " on yesterday " are commonly heard in the southern region of the United States They are acceptable in casual speech and other informal contexts, but should not be used in formal contexts such as academic writing
- Why is today morning wrong but tomorrow morning right?
I think it is a good question When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated
- What day is it today? vs. What day is today?
Which of the following is grammatical? What date day is it today? What date day is today?
- 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you are indicating plurality Since the point you are trying to convey is that the assumption you made yesterday is no longer valid, the apostrophe is appropriate Yesterday's assumption is no longer valid It's kind of like saying "The assumption of yesterday"
- 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
- word choice - Its raining today or its rainy today? - English . . .
It's raining today Raining is a verb, describing the action of rain It's rainy today Rainy is an adjective, describing what the weather is like today Sunny and cloudy are also adjectives that describe the weather, so for parallelism, it makes sense to say "It's rainy today" if you would otherwise write "It's sunny today "
- 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
- Which is correct? . . . . . as from today or from today onwards
Two other options (in addition to "as from today," "from today," and "effective today") are "beginning today" and "as of today " These may be more U S -idiomatic forms than British-idiomatic forms (the two "from" options have a British English sound to me, although "effective today" does not); but all five options are grammatically faultless, I believe
- meaning - Can Im passing today colloquially mean Im going to . . .
Of course, in the broadest sense, people are likely to understand what you mean if you say "No thanks, I'm passing today", just like they understand all kinds of grammatically incorrect statements
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