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SeroMack Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Relatively early

What adverb/preposition do we use to indicate that something is going to happen very soon, for example in a sentence like...

We are coming back home tomorrow (and if I want to indicate that this tomorrow is very soon, relatively early, am I to add words like yet or already?)

We are coming back home tomorrow yet/already/?

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Top answer

Hello Mack, "Yet" and "already" won't express your meaning. You would not need to modify "tomorrow" with an adverb that implies "soon", because we only use the word in contexts where the meaning of "tomorrow" is apparent to speaker and addressee. You can modify it with "early", however: 1.

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Mack, "Yet" and "already" won't express your meaning.
  • You would not need to modify "tomorrow" with an adverb that implies "soon", because we only use the word in contexts where the meaning of "tomorrow" is apparent to speaker and addressee.
  • You can modify it with "early", however: 1.
  • We are coming back early tomorrow.
  • Best wishes, MrP
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Hello Mack,

"Yet" and "already" won't express your meaning.

You would not need to modify "tomorrow" with an adverb that implies "soon", because we only use the word in contexts where the meaning of "tomorrow" is apparent to speaker and addressee.

You can modify it with "early", however:

1. We are coming back early tomorrow.

Best wishes,

MrP
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Thanks a lot, MrP Emotion: smile

By the way
MrPedanticYou would not need to modify "tomorrow" with an adverb that
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Sorry, sM: I meant "the word tomorrow".

All the best,

MrP
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