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- as of today, all passengers must check their luggage before boarding the plane. I see have to run, but not have run or have ran. If your teacher prefers that you dont use nowadays i would follow her instructions just because there are so many alternatives and she is the one grading your paper. I would also suggest this afternoon as a more succinct and idiomatic alternative to today in the afternoon. · im looking for a a 17th century colloquial term for children, in the way we use kids today. · in my town, people with phds in education use the terms, on today and on tomorrow. i have never heard this usage before. No, as of can mean both - 1) as of today, only three survivors have been found. · 14 nowadays and today are both perfectly acceptable. But all five options are grammatically faultless, i. In other contexts, its okay to say, for example, today has been a nice day nearer the end of the day, when the events that made it a nice day are finished (or at least, nearly so). Today means the current day, so if youre asking what day of the week it is, it can only be in present tense, since its still that day for the whole 24 hours. · in old books, people often use the spelling to-day instead of today. Also, when people wrote to-day, did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two You could also say these days, in recent times and at present or presently. Related info is in … · neither are clauses, but today in the afternoon is grammatical (adverbial phrase of time), while today afternoon is not. The best ive yet found is striplings, which seems to connote male teens more specifically, or possibly · not really addressed in the dictionary. I lean towards the former as correct, but asked here to get other thoughts. · the 2002 reference grammar by huddleston and pullum et al. , the cambridge grammar of the english language, would consider words like yesterday, today, tonight, and tomorrow as pronouns (specifically, deictic temporal pronouns). When did the change happen? Every time i hear them say it, i wonder if it is correct to use the wor. · two other options (in addition to as from today, from today, and effective today) are beginning today and as of today. these may be more u. s. -idiomatic forms than british-idiomatic forms (the two from options have a british english sound to me, although effective today does not);