When we ask the day of the week, can we use "What's the day today?" instead of "What day is it today?" Is it a common phrase?
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Can we interchange the sentences " What's the date today?" and "what day is it today?"  In grammar is it correct to use these sentences interchangeably?  For example "What's the day today?" and "what date is it today?"
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I am a bit confused. When can we omit the preposition on before weekdays? (Monday, Tuesday etc.) Sometimes I read weekdays without the preposition on. If the preposition is left out, does it work the same way, or does it change the meaning?  Example without the preposition     The UGC issued the public notice Monday after its two previous orders   in this regard were overlooked by the DU.   Example with the preposition     The commission on Monday also issued a public notice against the FYUP   in all leading newspapers for parents and students.
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Almost everywhere outside the United States, when short dates, e.g. 01/02/2013, are shown on computer screens, the user can't be sure whether the first two digits represent the day or the month. Is it January second or February first?  This is a big problem for people outside the United States, as they encounter both formats regularly, and can't know if the system has adapted to their locale, or has stuck with the American format. But I assume American users see mostly the American format (because many, if not most, information systems are built by or for Americans). What I'm curious about is whether American users also are confused in this scenario?  If you can point to some evidence or research, great. If not, I'll settle for your knowledgeable experience.  Note: I'm not asking for the wonderful solution of naming the month, e.g. May 21, 2013. I'm asking about the cases where a short date format has to be used.
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What is the difference between "I remember the day where..." and "I remember the day when..."?    I think both are used in both written and spoken English. Can we say that "when" makes more sense when we are talking about a specific point in time?
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In the US, when people work together, they may look for a colleague or any person to say something or for any other reason, asking colleagues or other people this type of question:         Have you seen Michael?   (OR)        Did you see Michael?          Which is considered right if the question refers to an activity (in our case "see") during the day and not in the past in general?
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I need to request leave for one day and for more than one day.  What's the correct way of using the word day?  Which is correct for a single day of leave?        1 day's leave   1 day leave      What about more than one day?        2 day's leave   2 days' leave      Please clarify with explanation.
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When asking someone questions about the future, would you ask Will you not? or Will not (won't) you?  For example, of  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Will you not go to school today? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Will not you go to school today? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Won't you go to school today?  which are grammatically correct?  It's very confusing to me.
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One of the answers to  question states that &quot;We shall discuss it in our today's meeting&quot;  is grammatically correct. To me, that sentence is clearly wrong. While in today's meeting is fine and in our today meeting is OKish (though at the very least clumsy), there's something about the possessive there (our today's) that makes it wrong for me. I would read that sentence as in our today's (as opposed to your today's) meeting. Similar to in our car's trunk where the our clearly modifies car and not trunk or car trunk, the our in our today's seems to be modifying today's and not meeting. So, my questions are i) is it actually grammatically wrong to say in our today's or is it just a question of usage? and ii) if it is indeed wrong, how can we explain its wrongness?
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I was wondering if someone could explain the subtle difference between these sentences:  1) Monday should be fine.  2) Monday would be fine.  This is in the context of someone asking if they could help me out on Monday instead of on Sunday. I am a little confused about the difference between the usage of 'should' and 'would' here. Both seem to fit. I personally seem to prefer 'should' but I can't explain why. Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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What it says on the tin, a foreign friend of mine has asked and I can't tell him; apart from it sounding horrible.  For example:  "Why is it raining today?"   Instead of:  "Why it is raining today?"
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Making a comparison with Who/Whom I now have a question about the use of what with prepositions in questions. I'll explain by example:  These two sentences are correct, one is more formal than the other:  Who/Whom     Formal: With whom are you doing that? Informal: Who are you doing that with?   But if I substitute Who/Whom with What, the "formal" one sounds a bit awkward and I'm not sure if it's correct or not:  What     With what are you doing that? What are you doing that with?   So, are those last two questions grammatically correct? Is one more formal than the other?
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Very new members will have this text displayed in their profile:    Should this not be changed to say "1 day" or "3 hours", etc? Especially as the "last seen" also works in this way.  Note that members who joined 24 hours ago have been members for "2 days", etc.  You'd say "x has been a member for 1 day" over "x has been a member for today"; saying "member for today" just doesn't feel right to me.
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I have a basic grammar question about the past tense. If I met a guy yesterday, which tense should I use about his name today?  For example,     "Yesterday I met a guy, his name is/was John."
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Amy: What day is it today?    Tom: It's Monday. Hmm... I like Monday.   Amy: What do you have today?   Tom: We have math, science and art.What about you?   Amy: We have English and P.E. What do you have tomorrow?    Tom: We have art and P.E.tomorrow.    Amy: Oh, great.      I can understand that "What about you" means "What do you have today?"  But I wonder whether "What about you" is an elliptical sentence. If it is, what is the full sentence? If it isn't, how to parse this structure?
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I sometimes get confused whether to use in or at. For example,  Children were not at school yesterday, because yesterday was a holiday. Children were not in school yesterday, because yesterday was a holiday.  Is there a rule of thumb to not confuse in and at?
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I want to know which sentence is correct. If i say     Guess, what it is?   or     Guess, what is it?   which one is correct?
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As I've looked through questions Stack Overflow recently, I've noticed that recently asked questions use relative time (posted yesterday or last edited 2 days ago), which is fine. Yet if I find an older question, I'm given a fuller date range like Sep 20 '11 at 20:55.  Why is the specific time given on older questions but not on newer questions? Couldn't the time stamp use relative time plus the hour, minute it was posted? An example would be posted yesterday at 12:05pm.