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My Celine  #124639  Sun, 07 Aug 05 08:27 AM

I found it on CNN.com. American English is so different from British English. Here is an example as follows:

E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume.

"ON" is missing in the sentence. I am wondering if it is acceptable from a grammatical point of view.

And, If the British see this kind of sentence, will they regard it as completely wrong?

 

  
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Eimai_Anglos  #124688  Sun, 07 Aug 05 01:40 PM
As a native Br. English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction. I would not find it acceptable. At the very least, I would expect two commas: "... announced, Sunday, that ...".


  
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Philip  #124699  Sun, 07 Aug 05 03:07 PM

 Eimai_Anglos wrote:
As a native Br. English speaker, this looks like a lazy American construction. I would not find it acceptable. At the very least, I would expect two commas: "... announced, Sunday, that ...".


As a 'colonist', I don't see anything lazy about it.  It's just a difference that has evolved over the years.  The use of 'on' with a day of the week is common here across the pond; I don't think anyone here sees the difference as lazy.

  
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MrPedantic  #124776  Sun, 07 Aug 05 11:33 PM

E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume.

I might not take it as specifically American: the absence of a determiner before 'envoys' and 'deadlocked' already marks the passage as 'block' or 'news item' English.

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