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Franmonaj Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
what day is it today/what day is today?
Hi there,
Could you guys tell me what the difference between these two ways of formulating questions are? Are both valid? I looked them up in google, and they seem to be used either way...pretty much the same number of entries for both sentences.
Could you please clarify this for me?
Thanks,
Fran monaj
Could you guys tell me what the difference between these two ways of formulating questions are? Are both valid? I looked them up in google, and they seem to be used either way...pretty much the same number of entries for both sentences.
Could you please clarify this for me?
Thanks,
Fran monaj
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Welcome to English Forums, Franmonaj. What day is today? -- today is a noun complement of the subject What day is it today?
- Welcome to English Forums, Franmonaj.
- What day is today?
- -- today is a noun complement of the subject What day is it today?
- -- today is an adverbial of time, and it is the 'prop' it signifying virtually nothing.
- Your question and the answer are more interesting than the effect, which is virtually nil-- both mean the same, and are both commonly used to elicit the same information: Wednesday .
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Welcome to English Forums, Franmonaj.
What day is today? -- today is a noun complement of the subject
What day is it today? -- today is an adverbial of time, and it is the 'prop' it signifying virtually nothing.
Your question and the answer are more interesting than the effect, which is virtually nil-- both mean the same, and are
What day is today? -- today is a noun complement of the subject
What day is it today? -- today is an adverbial of time, and it is the 'prop' it signifying virtually nothing.
Your question and the answer are more interesting than the effect, which is virtually nil-- both mean the same, and are
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