Which is correct?

Question

One: What do you normally do on a sunday night?
Two: What do you normally do on sunday night?

Answer 1

Tahunajcw's answer is best.

"On Sunday night" means the Sunday immediately before or after today, so you wouldn't use "normally" with that one day.

Answer 2

Neither.

The first one would be correct if Sunday was capitalized.

Added later: Some have implied that both are correct, with disregard to capitalization, but I still disagree. The only way sentence two could be correct is if "Night" was changed to "Nights" OR "What did you do on Sunday night?"...though that changes the meaning.

Without "a" before Sunday or an "s" at the end of night, the sentence is implying one Sunday and only one. The word "normally" needs to be used in reference to more than one, making the sentence incoherent.

There is one thing to consider though...
Let's say that Sunday was Christmas. You could then ask the other person, though it would be very unusual, "what do you normally do on Sunday night?"..with that Sunday being Christmas. Still, I feel this is incorrect and would have to be "what do you normally do on THIS Sunday night?"...though I have no idea as to why anyone wouldn't just say "Christmas".

Answer 3

Both are incorrect if you are going to write them down. Spoke they are okay, but actually ask two different questions and the first is stated ackwardly.

Correct:

What do you normally do on a Sunday night? 'Sunday' is always capitalized; by qualifying Sunday night with the word 'a' you insinuate a specific Sunday night, when what you really mean to ask is: "What do you do on Sunday nights?" Although ackward when studied closely, it is still a perfectly understandable question and is a perfect example of one of those quirps of the English language that makes it so hard to master. The usage of an 'a' before a subject indicates specifics; this is the perfect example of the except to the rule. Here you are using 'Sunday night' in general, rather than specifically.

Also Correct:

What do you do on Sunday night? Here you are asking about a specific 'Sunday night' rather than speaking generically about Sunday nights. Put another way, "What are we going to do this Sunday night?

I hope that helped.

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Answer 4

The first one is correct, meaning to ask what someone usually does when it's sunday night, that is any sunday night. The second is incorrect but would become correct if the question were "what do you normally do on sunday nights?" - then, the meaning would be exactly the same as in the previous sentence.

Answer 5

Three: What Do You Normally Do Sunday Night?

I'd Go With #1

Answer 6

The first statement is right.
The expression means you want to ask them what is their general routine on every sunday night. Here "a sunday night" is used to specify that out of all nights of the week, you are interested in just the nights of sundays.

Answer 7

Both of these are correct:

"What do you normally do on Sunday nights?"

"What do you normally do on a Sunday night?"

Always capitalize days of the week.

Answer 8

the first because the second it needs to be a specific sunday night. on the first it is just saying any given sunday night.

Answer 9

No.2 is correct.

a Sunday night as per no.1 is referring to one Sunday but did not specify which one,it means any one of the Sunday but not every one or all of the Sunday.

Answer 10

First one! The second one is agrammatical as Sunday would need an S, which would imply it is habitual and happens every Sunday.