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Understanding the Context

Paul on MSN: Minnesota Vikings score late TD in London to top Browns, 21-17 The Minnesota Vikings beat the Cleveland Browns 21-17 on Sunday in London after Carson Wentz hit Jordan Addison for the game-winning touchdown with 25 seconds left. The phrases " on tomorrow," " on today," and " on yesterday " are commonly heard in the southern region of the United States. They are acceptable in casual speech and other informal contexts, but should not be used in formal contexts such as academic writing. american english - Origins and history of "on tomorrow", "on today ...

Key Insights

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). Related info is in CGEL pages 429, 564-5. 3 “Earlier today” is a totally correct way to refer to a point in time between the beginning of the day and the current time. Because it refers to a moment in the past, it can be used with the past tense, as you did in your example. I think it is a good question.

Final Thoughts

When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Yes, idiom, but I actually do like idiomatic extensions like these - as long as everybody knows what is meant and no grammar or semantic rules are violated...