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Kimsohyang Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
Please explain this for me
An earlier round of strikes Tuesday leveled a multi-story residential building that also housed several Hamas offices. Cre: VOA News
Why is there no preposition (e.g: on) or adjective (e.g: this, last) in front of "Tuesday"?
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Days of the week can be used as adverbs of time.
- Days of the week can be used as adverbs of time.
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kimsohyangWhy is there no preposition (e.g: on) or adjective (e.g: this, last) in front of "Tuesday"?
We just do it that way sometimes. It might help you get a feel for the sense of it if you think of the day of the week as if it were the word "today" or "yesterday". It means the Tuesday just past.
Your sentence is in journalistic style, which tends t
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