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Tung Quoc Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Noun or adverb

Please read:

The day before yesterday, the night before today, the day after tomorrow.

Yesterday, tomorrow, today in these cases are all nouns, not adverbs. Is that righ?

Quoc
  

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yes The day before yesterday , the night before today , the day after tomorrow are all noun phrases . However in He said he had seen him the day before yesterday, the noun phrase is in adverb function.

— Inchoateknowledge

  • yes The day before yesterday , the night before today , the day after tomorrow are all noun phrases .
  • However in He said he had seen him the day before yesterday, the noun phrase is in adverb function.
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yes
The day before yesterday, the night before today, the day after tomorrow are all noun phrases.
However in
He said he had seen him the day before yesterday, the noun phrase is in adverb function.
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