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- grammar - Can we interchange phrases Whats the date today? and . . .
What is the Date today would technically mean you were asking the number of the day, like October the 18th But if you were to say "What is the Day today" would make you be asking the name of the day, like Sunday
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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 "
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