- 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 "
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- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
No, "as of" can mean both - 1) As of today, only three survivors have been found 2) As of today, all
- 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
- 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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Re: Interesting game today - Liberatore Post by Futuregm2 » 11 Jun 2025 16:02 pm JohnnyMO wrote: ↑ 11 Jun 2025 16:01 pm Libby pitched 86 innings last year mostly an inning or two at a time
- history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
today O E todæge, to dæge "on (the) day," from to "at, on" (see to) + dæge, dative of dæg "day" (see day) Generally written as two words until 16c , after which it usually was written to-day until early 20c Similar constructions exist in other Germanic languages (cf Du van daag "from-day," Dan , Swed i dag "in day")
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