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Is the following grammatical ?1. See you at the Sunday morning time.2. I didn't see her in Sunday's class.My focus is prepositions.Thanks

Englishmaven · Accepted Answer

"At the Sunday morning time" doesn't sound natural or fluent, not because of the preposition, but because of "Sunday morning time."

The second sentence is fine.

Rahul Roy 3395 · Answer

See you on Sunday morning.....

AlpheccaStars · Answer

1. See you at the Sunday morning time.

No, that is not correct.

I'll see you Sunday morning.

It can be shortened.
See you Sunday morning.

CalifJim · Answer

future3321. See you at the Sunday morning time.

Grammatical, but not good. Surprisingly perhaps, it sounds all right (to me, anyway) as

See you at the usual Sunday morning time.

CJ

Future332 · Answer

I see a contradiction here;
CalifJim states that "See you at the Sunday morning time" is grammatical and AlpheccaStars claims it is incorrect.
Who is actually right?
Thanks.

CalifJim · Answer

future332grammatical

There are divergent opinions on what "grammatical" means. I have a very loose definition, which is simply that there are no mistakes of grammar. The subject verb agreement is correct, the word order is correct, and the tenses are correct, and so on. This is a very low bar, however, when it comes to writing and speaking authentic, idiomatic English. To speak and write English well, you must go beyond grammar and make grammatical statements and questions that are idiomatic, i.e., natural to the ears of English speakers.

In some sense of those words, "See you at the Sunday morning time" is both grammatical (obeys the rules of English syntax) AND incorrect (does not sound natural).

There is a famous sentence that proves that being grammatical does not mean that a sentence makes any sense:

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

This sentence makes no sense. Nothing can be both "colorless" and "green", a color. Ideas are not physical objects, so they can't be green and they can't sleep. Sleep cannot be done in a furious manner. The whole sentence is truly bizarre. But it is completely grammatical. There are no mistakes of grammar in that sentence.

This is how different people can make different judgments about sentences.

To learn more about all of this terminology, you may want to take a look at the following links.

CJ

Future332 · Answer

Thank you very much, CalifJim. You've made me realize that I knew about what you said but never spoke or read it in my life.

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