EVERYDAY (ADJECTIVE)

Hello and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin.

Today we are going to examine the difference between everyday (one word = adjective) and every day (two words = adverb).

EVERYDAY (adjective)
It means: something that is considered normal or average

Example 1: Why are you so eager to buy that particular pen? It's just an everyday, black ball-point pen. There's nothing special about it.

Example 2: I need to buy some everyday shoes. You know? Something really comfortable for walking around in; nothing too fancy.

Example 3: He doesn't find his job particularly fulfilling because he only has to do everyday tasks. He would like greater professional challenges.

You can see in the above examples that we frequently use the word just or only combined with everyday. This is because everyday emphasizes the fact that something is not special or different, but average.

Tomorrow we will learn about every day (adverb).

⇒ As usual, in order to get some writing practice in English, I encourage you to write your own sentence (or two) with EVERYDAY. You can post your sentences to one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) and we will give you feedback about your writing as soon as we can.

Have a great day!