Today Jill Ireland

Today means "the current day", so if you're asking what day of the week it is, it can only be in present tense, since it's still that day for the whole 24 hours. 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. Nov 20, 2014the 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.

Sep 8, 20212) this answer, while helpfully giving former versions of 'today', is in no way actually addressing the op's question of why 'to', since the ostensible meaning of 'to' doesn't make literal. When there is yesterday morning and tomorrow morning, why have an exception for this morning (which means today's morning)? Sep 10, 2012in old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today".

No, "as of" can mean both - 1) as of today, only three survivors have been found. 2) as of today, all passengers must check their luggage before boarding the plane. Feb 29, 2016two 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.