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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Grammatical Correctness of "Earlier Tonight"

As the subject states, "earlier tonight" has been thrown around a lot as an approximation to a near-past time frame. Does it make any grammatical sense with "earlier" being past-tense and "tonight" being future-tense?

  

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earlier and tonight are not verbs, so they don't have a tense.

— Clive

  • earlier and tonight are not verbs, so they don't have a tense.
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earlier and tonight are not verbs, so they don't have a tense.

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The phrase "earlier tonight" is often heard, as in:


"He came by earlier tonight."


"I saw him earlier tonight."

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