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Wonder123 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

now, today, tonight, every day, each day

now, today, every day, yesterday each day etc, I get often get confused whether to use them at the beginning of the sentence or at the end especially speaking in third person. Please help me understand.

Today I'm going to market or I'm going to market?

Now she is going to cook a delicious food or she is going to cook a delicious food?

Every day lots of visitors come to her shop and buy tons of outfits ( should every day be at the end?)

Each day you have to do the job and report to your manager( should Each day be at the end?)

Today he is going to his friend's house to celebrate his friend's birthday.( should Today be at the end?)

I'm going to party tonight ( should tonight be at the end?)

Tonight she is going dance in a dancing hall. ( should tonight be at the end?)

Yesterday I went to the party or I went to the party yesterday?

Thanks for your help.
  

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In all of your examples, the time words can go either at the beginning or the end. It's probably more common to put them at the end in the California dialect, but people also put them at the beginning.

— Vorpar

  • In all of your examples, the time words can go either at the beginning or the end.
  • It's probably more common to put them at the end in the California dialect, but people also put them at the beginning.
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In all of your examples, the time words can go either at the beginning or the end.

It's probably more common to put them at the end in the California dialect, but people also put them at the beginning.
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Ok thank you very much for your help, I thought we need to put them in the beginning when we write sentences in third person and in the end while talking.

I have been using the time words usually in the beginning, since time words are used commonly in the end I will practice to put them in the end.

Thanks.
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Wonder123 I thought we need to put them in the beginning when we write sentences in third person and in the end while talking.
One of the strangest non-rules I've heard recently. Wherever do students pick them up?!
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:-) sorry I think I understood the concept incorrectly, Do you have any specific context where we should use time word in the beginning?
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The only reason I can think of that a time word should go first is when it is the subject: Today is Thursday.

There are certainly countless exceptions, so don't take this as a rule either.
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Do the same rules apply for the below words?

right now, at the moment, every day, every time, soon, this evening/afternoon, carefully
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Wonder123Do the same rules apply for the below words?right now, at the moment, every day, every time, soon, this evening/afternoon, carefully
Which rules are you thinking of now?
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I mean using them at the beginning as well as at the end of the sentences.
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Wonder123I mean using them at the beginning as well as at the end of the sentences.
Yes, they can all be used at the beginning and end and often in the middle as well. They are all temporal adverbs, which are the freest kind.
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