grammar check, please correct if I am wrong
By RUBESH
@Manasha (2824)
Pondicherry, India
June 15, 2017 1:46am CST
The sentence is
Please share your feedback on yesterday’s center visit
or
please share your feedback yesterday's center visit
In general I know that preposition is not used before the word yesterday , however here on emphasize center visit, so tell me if am correct or not
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
15 Jun 17
"In general I know that preposition is not used before yesterday" - really? why not?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jun 17
It's a rule which is often taught in EFL classes but it refers specifically to sentences like "It was my birthday yesterday" in contrast to "It was my birthday on Thursday". It doesn't apply, of course, in cases like "From tomorrow, no books may be taken out of the library." or "I didn't know about that rule until yesterday".
(Actually, the sentence "In general I know that a preposition is not used before yesterday" is quite amusing because 'before' is actually a preposition!)
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
15 Jun 17
@owlwings "from tomorrow" seems to be uk english. i would mostly likely use "starting tomorrow" or "from now on"
@LadyDuck (472258)
• Switzerland
15 Jun 17
@hereandthere There is only one English, the UK English, the other language is American.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jun 17
There are several cases when a preposition is used with a temporal noun ("until yesterday", "from tomorrow" for example) but your difficulty here is that you haven't understood that "yesterday's" is an adjectival possessive which describes 'center visit' and that 'on' is a preposition linked to 'feedback'.
The first sentence is correct.
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@chinesewiseman (96)
• Shandong, China
15 Jun 17
Do you think if yesterday is attributive here?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jun 17
@LadyDuck @Manasha is correct in thinking that "I visited my aunt on yesterday" would be incorrect, whereas "I visited my aunt on Thursday" would be correct but the confusion has arisen because the possessive case of "yesterday's" (in both your example and his/hers) means that it is being used as an adjective and replacing "yesterday's" with the definite article should make it clear that "on" is the appropriate preposition.
A simple analysis of what words belong to what other words might go something like this:
"Please share your feedback"
What feedback?
"The feedback on the visit"
What visit?
"Yesterday's visit"
Put all the information together.
"Please share your feedback on yesterday's visit."
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