My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that 'for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day.'.Written by Bob and Debby Gass, The Word for Today is a daily devotional designed to help Christians keep focused on their relationship with Christ.It is fairly easy to differentiate between a noun and a verb, but knowing a preposition from a conjunction is more difficult because their purpose in a sentence is so similar.