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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

In the morning / this morning

Can I say,

(i) He ate / eats porridge in this morning.

(ii) He ate / eats porridge this morning.

Is there a verb related to "in this morning" / "this morning"?
  

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He ate porridge this morning. He is eating porridge this morning. ) No preposition is normally used with this, that, next and last when the reference is to time : He came last week .

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  • He ate porridge this morning.
  • He is eating porridge this morning.
  • ) No preposition is normally used with this, that, next and last when the reference is to time : He came last week .
  • I'll see him next week.
  • It happened that week .
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He ate porridge this morning.

He is eating porridge this morning. (It's still morning.)

No preposition is normally used with this, that, next and last when the reference is to time:

He came last week. I'll see him next week. It happened that week.
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(i) He ate / eats porridge in the morning.

(ii) He ate / eats porridge this morning.

Is there a verb related to "in this morning" / "this morning"?

the phrase is "in the morning"

For "this morning" you would use past tense as it is something that already occurred. Use the word, "ate".

For "in the morning" this is something th
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