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Loviii Posted 4 years ago
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The car accident took place (on) the day ...

Greetings.

It says https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/on-the-day-or-the-day.3687125/ that (1a) & (1b) are both correct and mean the same:
(1a) I went to the exhibition the day I took my dog home.
(1b) I went to the exhibition on the day I took my dog home.

I would like to know:
Is "The car accident took place the day ..." also correct (as "1a")?
Is "The car accident took place on the day ..." also correct (as "1b")?

For this purpose, I made up some sentences:
(2a) The car accident took place the day of a heavy rain.
(2b) The car accident took place on the day of a heavy rain.

(3a) The car accident took place the day when it was raining heavily.
(3b) The car accident took place on the day when it was raining heavily.

(4a) The car accident took place the day before yesterday.
(4b) The car accident took place on the day before yesterday.

Which of them are correct and which are not? Thanks.

  

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loviii Which of them are correct and which are not? Every one is correct. " When you precede those phrases with "on", you have converted them to an adverbial prepositional phrase.

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  • loviii Which of them are correct and which are not?
  • Every one is correct.
  • " When you precede those phrases with "on", you have converted them to an adverbial prepositional phrase.
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loviiiWhich of them are correct and which are not?

Every one is correct.

These are adverbial:

"the day that..." "the day of..." "the day when..."

When you precede those phrases with "on", you have converted them to an adverbial prepositional phrase.

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