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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The difference in meaning?

Nowadays domestic robots that perform simple tasks such as vacuum cleaning and grass cutting are now available.
In this sentence, the two adverbs 'nowadays' and 'now' have been used. What is the difference in meaning between them?
  

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Anonymous In this sentence, the two adverbs 'nowadays' and 'now' have been used. They should not have been. Anonymous What is the difference in meaning between them?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous In this sentence, the two adverbs 'nowadays' and 'now' have been used.
  • They should not have been.
  • Anonymous What is the difference in meaning between them?
  • They overlap heavily.
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AnonymousIn this sentence, the two adverbs 'nowadays' and 'now' have been used.
They should not have been.
Anonymous What is the difference in meaning between them?
They overlap heavily.
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I think the meaning of 'now' in the sentence is immediately, at once. Is it possible? Please explain it to me.
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No, that doesn't make sense. It would still conflict with "nowadays."
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Why don't you choose simply one of them, for example "nowadays"?
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In the OALD, the word 'now' is defined as 'immediately, at once'. So the sentence in my op is meaningful, I think.
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AnonymousNowadays
At the present time, in contrast with the past.
Anonymousnow
At the present time or moment (no contrast with the past).
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AnonymousAt the present time, in contrast with the past.AnonymousnowAt the present time or moment (no contrast with the past).
That is all very well if you need a dictionary, but the fact remains that the original sentence is wrong in using both words.
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