[Grammar] nowadays life

[atabitaraf]

In dictionary, 'nowadays' is an adverb, however the phrase 'nowadays life' seems very familiar to me. I wanted to make sure if I can use 'nowadays' as an adjective in this phrase, or is there any useful rule that can help in here.

Thanks,

 

[probus]

The phrase "nowadays life" with nowadays as an adjective sounds unnatural. Leave "nowadays" as an adverb following "life" and you're fine. For example: Life nowadays is becoming increasingly complicated. That same sentence starting with "Nowadays, life ..." would be fine with a comma.

PS I edited this to add the part about a comma, not realizing the GoesStation had already dealt with the comma matter.

 

[GoesStation]

Add a comma and it's fine: Nowadays, life is more complicated than ever.

 

[jutfrank]

Add a comma and it's fine: Nowadays, life is more complicated than ever.

As GoesStation shows here with the comma, nowadays life is not a phrase. It's simply two unconnected words that happen to occur together.