3 “Earliertoday” 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. Sep 10, 2012 ·In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today". When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two For instance, consider the sentence, "I ate lunchtoday." Is it necessary or acceptable to put a comma before "today?" Generally speaking, some of these time phrases look wrong to me when used wit... Apr 19, 2011 ·Neither are clauses, but "todayin the afternoon" is grammatical (adverbial phrase of time), while "todayafternoon" is not. I would also suggest "this afternoon" as a more succinct and idiomatic alternative to "todayin the afternoon".
