Proper use of the word "on"

[nq:1]Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper use of the word "on" in ... taught that this is proper English, however my boss states that using the word "on" in the sentence is incorrect.[/nq]
Your boss is right. yesterday needs no preposition: (and neither do tomorrow or today; but the names
of the weekdays take a preposition, cf. meeting on Monday etc.)

D

[nq:1]Hi, Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper useof the word "on" in ... word "on" in the sentence is incorrect. I would love to find a reference to a rule on this issue.[/nq]
Here's the rule: You don't say "on" with "yesterday", "today", or "tomorrow". You do say "on" with "Monday" etc. but not with "next Monday" etc.
There are more examples in your English usa

[nq:1]Hi, Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper use of the word "on" ... word "on" in the sentence is incorrect. I would love to find a reference to a rule on this issue.[/nq]
I can't help with the rule thing. In fact, there is no rule for things like that. Anybody can write a rule. I can, however, tell you as a native speaker that "on yesterday" is simply not English

[nq:1]Hi, Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper use of the word "on" ... word "on" in the sentence is incorrect. I would love to find a reference to a rule on this issue.[/nq]
It works in many situations:
our meeting on Monday
our meeting on the 15th.
our meeting on the same day.
our meeting on the day we return
our meeting on the day after tomorro

Yeah, what they said.
I would only add that months, seasons, years, decades and centuries are generally preceded by "in"
In January
In the summer
In the month of June
In 1963
In the Seventies
In the Nineteenth Century
etc.
Don
Kansas City

A better rule is "If your boss doesn't like it, don't do it."

[nq:1]"This is a follow-up to our meeting on yesterday" I was always taught that this is proper English, however my boss states that using the word "on" in the sentence is incorrect.[/nq]
... to our meeting of yesterday
or, more briefly,
... to yesterday's meeting.
I don't know that you'll find a specific written rule for this specific case.

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, T

[nq:2]Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is ... that using the word "on" in the sentence is incorrect.[/nq]
[nq:1]Your boss is right. yesterday needs no preposition: (and neither do tomorrow or today;[/nq]
I can't agree.
" ... a follow-up to our meeting yesterday" just sounds wrong to me. About the only thing it might meet is that we had a follow-up meeting yesterday, to continue

vanderty wrote on 18 Dec 2004:
[nq:1]Hi, Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper use of the word "on" ... word "on" in the sentence is incorrect. I would love to find a reference to a rule on this issue.[/nq]
The only possible meaning of "on" this sentence is "about" and not "the meeting that we had".
It's not idiomatic AmE.

Franke: EFL teacher & medica

[nq:1]Hi, Can anyone help me find a rule, if there is one, for the proper use of the word "on" in a sentence such as the one below. "This is a follow-up to our meeting on yesterday"[/nq]
If somebody said, "This is a follow-up to our meeting on penguins," I would assume that there was an earlier meeting to discuss penguins. If you met earlier today to discuss yesterday, and are having another m