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My Celine Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

On Sunday / Sunday

I found it on CNN.com. American English is so different from British English. Here is an example as follows:

E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume.

"ON" is missing in the sentence. I am wondering if it is acceptable from a grammatical point of view.

And, If the British see this kind of sentence, will they regard it as completely wrong?
  

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As a native Br. English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction. I would not find it acceptable.

— Eimai_Anglos

  • As a native Br.
  • English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction.
  • I would not find it acceptable.
  • At the very least, I would expect two commas: "...
  • ".
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As a native Br. English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction. I would not find it acceptable. At the very least, I would expect two commas: "... announced, Sunday, that ...".
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Eimai_AnglosAs a native Br. English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction. I would not find it acceptable. At the very least, I would expect two commas: "... announced, Sunday, that ...".

As a 'colonist', I don't see anything lazy about it. It's just a difference that has evolved over the years. The use of 'on' with a day of the wee
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E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume.


I might not take it as specifically American: the absence of a determiner before 'envoys' and 'deadlocked' already marks the passage as 'block' or 'news item' Engli
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