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Yoong Liat Posted 19 years ago
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'on' needed?

0My mother came to my house yesterday, 00on00 12 December. 02br
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0Hello Yong02br
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0 01i00My mother came to my house 01font00yesterday 01b00the 02b001201b00th02b00 December02font02br
02i00My mother came to my house 01font00yesterday, December01b00 the02b00 1201b00th. 02br
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1i00Hi Marius02i02br
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01i00My mother came to my house 01font00yesterday 01b00the 02b001201b00th02b00 December02font02br
00My mother came to my house 02i01font01i00yesterday, December01b00 the02b
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0 No, IMO: 01i02br
00 My mother came to my house (on) 01font00yesterday, December01b00 02b02font01font008, 2006.02br
02font02i00I would not use 01i00on02i00 here, but I think others would. 01i01font0
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10No, IMO: 11i12br
10My mother came to my house (on) 11font10yesterday, December11b10 12b12font11font108, 2006.12br
12font12i10I would not use 11i10on12i
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01b00BBC02b00. People Magazine. Entertainment Weekly. AP. Time Magazine. MTV. Reuters. USA ... Silver Hammer' were auctioned 01b00on yesterday (December02b00 4) in London02br
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00College football recruiting coverage on the Scout.com Network. ... I had an in
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0I'd say that 'on yesterday' is always incorrect. 02br
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00Just because you can find it a couple of times in google just means that the people who wrote it made an error. The internet is full of errors. I can't find the Beatles news quote there but the scout one was a quote from an American football player. It's possible that he was misquoted. Or it's possible that he made
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0 It may come into use from some older contexts:02br
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00 Anthony's newspaper rival, the Commercial, December 25, reviewed the02br
00 background of the libel case, the McCrea articles, Lecompte's warning,02br
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0 And this one seems recent and educated:02br
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00 From: Charlie Ford 02br
00 Subject: Meeting Jack Kerouac02br
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01b00On yesterday, December 1, 1997,02b00 just to mark my date, I departed02br
00 Portsmouth, NH and headed south in the even more populated New England02br
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