Listen
Adverb
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity
- Now the next problem is...
- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
- found an answer straightaway
- an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith
- at the present moment
- he is busy at present writing a new novel
- it could happen any time now
- used to preface a command or reproof or request
- in these times
- it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished- Nancy Mitford
- we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets
- today almost every home has television
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard
- Washington now decides to cross the Delaware
- the ship is now listing to port
Noun
- the momentary present
- Now is a good time to do it
- it worked up to right now