Yesterday's class or the yesterday's class or our yesterday's class

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yesterday's class or the yesterday's class or our yesterday's class

Which one is natural to use?

Is it okay to put 'the' or 'our' in front of 'yesterday's class'? Or 'yesterday's class' itself is fine to use?

What do you native English speakers think?

Thank you so much as usual in advance!

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Hans51Is it okay to put 'the' or 'our' in front of 'yesterday's class'?

No, it's not.
You can put many adjectives before a noun, but only one determiner.

Possessives and articles are determiners.

CalifJim · Answer

Hans51yesterday's class

That's the whole thing right there. No 'the'.

Once you've used a possessive in front of a noun, you've already blocked off any possibility of using another determiner (a, the, this, my, our, ...) in front of the possessive which would apply to the same noun. Hence, in this case, if you add "the", it goes with 'yesterday', not with 'class'.

In other words, the grouping is always the yesterday's class; it is not the yesterday's class. It is the king's palace; it is not the king's palace. And so on.

In the case before us here, we know (or we should know) that 'yesterday' never takes 'the' in front of it, so 'the' is impossible here. Conversely, 'king' can take 'the', so that example above is fine.

CJ

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