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- tenses - 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?
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
- Today in the past - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
3 “Earlier today” is a totally correct way to refer to a point in time between the beginning of the day and the current time Because it refers to a moment in the past, it can be used with the past tense, as you did in your example
- 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
- 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
- Our Todays Meeting or Our meeting that is scheduled for today
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- When should I use the verb work over working?
But by putting the "today" at the end, you are making a declaration of time which is odd for the present simple So, to the answer: I would, in general, use the first construction Though an exact answer would be dependent on the context of the situation
- 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
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