How can I know 'Tomorrow' is an adverb or a noun?
For example, 'Tomorrow, I'll swim down the river and into the ocean.' I have no idea what 'Tomorrow' is supposed to be.
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Tomorrow , I'll swim down the river and into the ocean . When used this way, tomorrow is traditionally analysed as an adverb. But modern grammar takes it as a pronoun, as it is in Tomorrow is the first day of the summer vacation , where it can hardly be called an adverb.
- Tomorrow , I'll swim down the river and into the ocean .
- When used this way, tomorrow is traditionally analysed as an adverb.
- But modern grammar takes it as a pronoun, as it is in Tomorrow is the first day of the summer vacation , where it can hardly be called an adverb.
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- They arrived last week ; They stayed a long time where the noun phrases last week and long time modify respectively arrived and stayed .
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Tomorrow, I'll swim down the river and into the ocean.
When used this way, tomorrow is traditionally analysed as an adverb. But modern grammar takes it as a pronoun, as it is in Tomorrow is the first day of the summer vacation, where it can hardly be called an adverb.
The claim is that there is no need to distinguish the tomorrow in that example with the
0Most of the time "tomorrow" is classified as an adverb. It answers the question, "when". And, as BillJ remarked, you can remove it from the sentence without damaging the sentence structure.
Here are some examples of its use as a noun. You cannot remove the word tomorrow from these sentences without compromising the sentence structure.
The day after today is tomorrow. (sub
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