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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Please help me out with modification
Is it never possible for "tomorrow morning" to modify "a meeting" in "I have to attend a meeting tomorrow morning." I think it is possible and whether tomorrow morning modifies a meeting or attend, there is not much difference in meaning between them. What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual.
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I think it is necessarily adverbial, modifying 'attend'. Consider that it can be rearranged: Tomorrow morning, I have to attend a meeting. And it cannot pre-modify as it stands, but must be converted to possessive: I have to attend tomorrow morning's meeting.
- I think it is necessarily adverbial, modifying 'attend'.
- Consider that it can be rearranged: Tomorrow morning, I have to attend a meeting.
- And it cannot pre-modify as it stands, but must be converted to possessive: I have to attend tomorrow morning's meeting.
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I think it is necessarily adverbial, modifying 'attend'. Consider that it can be rearranged:
Tomorrow morning, I have to attend a meeting.
And it cannot pre-modify as it stands, but must be converted to possessive:
I have to attend tomorrow morning's meeting.
Tomorrow morning, I have to attend a meeting.
And it cannot pre-modify as it stands, but must be converted to possessive:
I have to attend tomorrow morning's meeting.
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