- 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?
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 "
- When should I use the verb work over working?
I (always) work today (That is, "Today is Monday, and I always work on Mondays Thus, I work today ") I am working today Present Continuous tense, which tells an action that continues during a period of time TODAY is a period of 24 hours, so a continuous verb is a correct choice to tell an action that happens during a range of time
- 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"
- What day is it today? vs. What day is today?
The more common "What day is it today?" is answered by "It is X today", where "it" is a pleonastic pronoun
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
By most definitions, the date changes at midnight That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00 That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem
- Is it correct to say on yesterday? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Grammarians and English teachers will tell you not to use the preposition "on" with the adverbs "tomorrow," "today," and "yesterday" because it is already a part of their meaning Tomorrow is defined as "on the day after today," today is defined as "on this day," and yesterday is defined as "on the day before today "
- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week
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