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Paul Evdokimov 3950 Posted 12 years ago
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yesterday`s vs yesterday
Can anybody explain me why we say 'yesterday`s newspaper' but 'yesterday afternoon'? Why is it in the possessive case when it modifies newspaper and in the common case when it modifies the time of day?
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1. Yesterday afternoon we went to the park. Yesterday is an adverb.
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- Yesterday afternoon we went to the park.
- Yesterday is an adverb.
- The phrase ( y esterday afternoon) actually is short for the adverb phrase: yesterday in the afternoon...
- Yesterday does not have the same semantic relation with afternoon as yesterday has with news in the following: 2.
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1. Yesterday afternoon we went to the park.
Yesterday is an adverb. The phrase (yesterday afternoon) actually is short for the adverb phrase: yesterday in the afternoon...
Yesterday does not have the same semantic relation with afternoon as yesterday has with news in the following:
2. He was reading yesterday's news in yesterday's newspape
Yesterday is an adverb. The phrase (yesterday afternoon) actually is short for the adverb phrase: yesterday in the afternoon...
Yesterday does not have the same semantic relation with afternoon as yesterday has with news in the following:
2. He was reading yesterday's news in yesterday's newspape
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