ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: On Sunday / Sunday

MrPedantic — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:33:46 GMT

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.

MrP

Re: On Sunday / Sunday

Philip — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:07:31 GMT

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.

Re: On Sunday / Sunday

Eimai_Anglos — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:40:36 GMT

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 ...".

On Sunday / Sunday

My Celine — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:27:21 GMT

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?