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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

It was [the same] day after day

The concierge told him what her food had consisted of. A bottle of milk was left for her every day and she brought in her own loaf of bread; she ate half the loaf and drank half the milk at mid-day when she came back from the school, and consumed the rest in the evening. It was the same day after day.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
I'd like to know if "the same" is the adjective or the pronoun.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know if "the same" is the adjective or the pronoun. You can call it a pronoun, though it does have some of the properties of a non-gradable adjective. CJ

— CalifJim

  • park sang joon I'd like to know if "the same" is the adjective or the pronoun.
  • You can call it a pronoun, though it does have some of the properties of a non-gradable adjective.
  • CJ
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park sang joonI'd like to know if "the same" is the adjective or the pronoun.
You can call it a pronoun, though it does have some of the properties of a non-gradable adjective.

CJ
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Thank you, CalifJim, for another So very kind answer from you. Emotion: smile
Then I was wondering if "it" is in apposition to "the same."
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park sang joonThen I was wondering if "it" is in apposition to "the same."
No. "it" is a pronoun subject. "it" refers to the routine previously described. "was" is a linking verb. "the same" is a subject complement.

Any item which is in apposition must directly follow a noun.

the planet Jupiter / the fact that the earth is n
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