A student asked me about the following sentence:
- Traffic jams are a feature of everyday life in modern cities.
He asked me if the following version is also correct:
- Traffic jams are a feature of everyday's life in modern cities.
What do you think? Is the second sentence correct? Why / why not?
Dear Simon,
Everyday is an adjective, not a Noun, which is applicable to possessive case. Therefore, it is incorrect to use everyday's life.
Posted by: Quan Le | April 08, 2017 at 09:06
Hi,Simon
This is my first time to add a comment to your website, even through I have read your articals many time.
My answer is "wrong',cause 'everyday' is a adj.It's not reasonalbe to add 's' behind a ajd.
Posted by: Jack | April 08, 2017 at 09:33
Hi Simon,
Thank you very much for your job.
I think the second sentence is incorrect. Because "everyday" is an adjective and "life" is a noun so this phrase should be "everyday life".
Waiting your answer.
Best Regards
Duyen Nguyen
Posted by: Duyen Nguyen | April 08, 2017 at 10:30
why don't using "daily life" instead?
Posted by: Alyssa | April 08, 2017 at 10:35
No, I think the second sentence is not correct. I have never seen people using "everyday's life", it is much more common to see the phrase " part/ feature of everyday life/ daily life". I guess the student must have mistaken everyday as a noun, but I have just looked it up in the dictionary and it's an adjective.
Posted by: Nam Anh | April 08, 2017 at 17:17
The second sentence is wrong because if you put 's it does shows ownership..i think..
Posted by: Coleen | April 08, 2017 at 17:40
I agree with above comments tht 2nd sentence is wrong..
Posted by: vicky vaghela | April 08, 2017 at 19:14
Hi
I think everyday means Daily and it is an adjective not a noun.
That is strange to say daily´s Life.
BR
Bahman
Posted by: Bahman | April 09, 2017 at 09:51
Second sentence is incorrect because apostrophe is not recommended in academic writing . The meaning also changed: everyday's life means what is going on in life in general day by day not the city's life.
Posted by: Janet | April 09, 2017 at 10:56
FROM SIMON:
"everyday life" is a very normal phrase in English. As a few people wrote above, "everyday" is an adjective, so it's the same as writing "daily life". We don't say "everyday's life" or "daily's life".
Posted by: Simon | April 09, 2017 at 19:08
oh! great
Posted by: sujit kumar biswas | April 10, 2017 at 00:40
OK, great thanks.
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Posted by: Firdavs | April 12, 2017 at 17:17
Thank you Simon
Posted by: hakader | April 13, 2017 at 13:11
Great! Much appreciated Simon! Keep up the good job!
Posted by: Corey28 | June 15, 2017 at 15:37
Kindly mention the correct answer.
Posted by: Khan | June 28, 2017 at 21:37