- 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
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
Straddling Thursday and Friday Straddling today and tomorrow but should they technically mean: straddling the 9th and the 10th of December? straddling Wednesday and Thursday? This is much less clear Technically is there a midnight "tonight", or is midnight "tomorrow morning"? What do you think? How should "midnight" be interpreted?
- Difference between How are you? and How are you doing?
Good, that will do for today (That will be enough) How are you guys doing here? (Waitress addressing customers : Is everything all right?) DO is a process verb: you can proceed through an action, that is perform an action (do one's duty, do one's homework, do the dishes), or you can proceed through an appreciation, as in "The firm doing great"
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- grammaticality - Usage of it is or is it in questions - English . . .
1 "what day it is today" is a noun clause in your sentence, the direct object of the verb tell, and thus cannot be in an interrogative form so your second sentence is the way to go
- Due by, due on, due for - whats the difference?
While I agree that "due for" usually refers to a person and event and not the time something is due, I received an email recently where someone said "we need this for Thursday" When "for" is followed by a temporal noun, what is the precise meaning? Given your example with 'Mr Green's Class', "due for" seems closer to "due on", putting more emphasis on the date than the precise time Would
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