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easy question about yesterday

Post by donnach » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:27 pm

The party was yesterday.

Is yesterday an adverb in the above sentence?

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Post by ouyang » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:46 pm

It's called a predicate adverb because it functions as a complement. It would be an adjunctive adverb in "The party was fun yesterday."
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Post by donnach » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:01 am

thank you :wink:
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