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Jack-in-the-box Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
"Today is Thursday" or "Today it's Thursday"?
Which of these two sentences is correct:
"Today is Thursday"
or
"Today it's Thursday"?
Are they both correct?
And what about "It's Thursday today"?
And if I want to ask you a question, should I say
"Is today Thursday?" (but it doesn't sound very well to me)
or
"Is it Thursday today?" ?
Thank you very much for your answers.
"Today is Thursday"
or
"Today it's Thursday"?
Are they both correct?
And what about "It's Thursday today"?
And if I want to ask you a question, should I say
"Is today Thursday?" (but it doesn't sound very well to me)
or
"Is it Thursday today?" ?
Thank you very much for your answers.
Top answer
' All of these roll trippingly off my tongue, but 'today it's Thursday' does not. This sentence seems unnatural, but I can offer no reason except usage. My apologies.
- ' All of these roll trippingly off my tongue, but 'today it's Thursday' does not.
- This sentence seems unnatural, but I can offer no reason except usage.
- My apologies.
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'Today is Thursday.'
'Is today Thursday?'
'It's Thursday today.'
'Is it Thursday today?'
'It's Thursday today, isn't it?'
'Today's not Thursday, is it?'
All of these roll trippingly off my tongue, but 'today it's Thursday' does not. This sentence seems unnatural, but I can offer no reason except usage. My apologies.
'Is today Thursday?'
'It's Thursday today.'
'Is it Thursday today?'
'It's Thursday today, isn't it?'
'Today's not Thursday, is it?'
All of these roll trippingly off my tongue, but 'today it's Thursday' does not. This sentence seems unnatural, but I can offer no reason except usage. My apologies.
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"Today is Thursday."
You don't need to use the pronoun "it" in that sentence because "today" is used as a noun in it (not as an adverb). Using "it" would be redundant, since "today" is the subject of the sentence. You don't need another subject.
In "today's my birthday", "today" is a noun.
In "I'm going shopping today", "today" is an adverb.
Miriam
You don't need to use the pronoun "it" in that sentence because "today" is used as a noun in it (not as an adverb). Using "it" would be redundant, since "today" is the subject of the sentence. You don't need another subject.
In "today's my birthday", "today" is a noun.
In "I'm going shopping today", "today" is an adverb.
Miriam
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In my humble opinion, "Today is Thursday" is syntactically perfect, Today functioning as a subject / noun; and "Today it's Thursday is fine, too, with Thursday taking on the role of an adverb. This is confirmed by the fact that it passes the native speaker test (see above).
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I think when we say' it is Thursday today' Thursday is noun complement , and today is adverb .
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