Re: Which part of speech?

Christopher Wright <dhasenan@...> wrote:
> So if your definition of "adverb" includes prepositional phrases, then yes,
> the string "yesterday" can be an adverb, but only if it's a proper noun (to
> account for the lack of a determiner) with a null preposition.
It shouldn't have to be a proper noun to account for the lack of a determiner.
Determiners are eschewable on *uncountable* nouns, whether abstract (love was,
justice was), mass (wood was, cheese was), or proper (John was, Jane was).

But in any case, isn't "yesterday" a proper noun anyway, being a name for a
unique or particular moment in time?


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