time adjuncts

A1, adjuncts, NOUNS, phrases, time

A1 point 1 in the category of NOUNS  is defined:

phrases as ADJUNCTS in some time expressions.

The English Grammar Profile examples include:

  • …you tomorrow morning.
  • …her tomorrow
  • …interview today.
  • …you again next week.

Notice ‘next’ can also be used as a pronoun for this B2 future time phrase:

This means “Monday after next Monday”

A search in iWeb for:

_P _MD _NNT

1 IT LAST YEAR 6046

Randy did it last year.

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2 IT LAST NIGHT 4620
3 IT NEXT TIME 3336
4 IT LAST WEEK 3190
5 YOU NEXT TIME 3160

38 IT LAST SUMMER 453
39 WHO LAST MONTH 442
40 HIM LAST SEASON 428

66 IT NEXT DAY 239

_P _RT _NNT

1 IT TOMORROW MORNING 188

Look for it tomorrow morning.

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2 IT TOMORROW NIGHT 139
4 IT AGAIN ANYTIME 111
6 IT YESTERDAY MORNING 92
7 IT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON 81
13 THEM AGAIN ANYTIME 48
15 IT YESTERDAY EVENING 44
25 IT TOMORROW EVENING 29
27 HIM AGAIN ANYTIME 26
31 IT TOMORROW AFTERNOON 23
32 IT AGAIN YEARS 23
36 IT YESTERDAY NIGHT 18
38 THEM TOMORROW EVENING 17
39 US AGAIN ANYTIME 16
40 ME TOMORROW AFTERNOON 16
44 YOU TOMORROW EVENING 14
45 ME YESTERDAY NIGHT 14
50 US TOMORROW EVENING 12

Here are some other examples of phrases that can be used as time expressions:

  • Noun phrases:
    • tomorrow morning
    • next week
    • the day after tomorrow
    • the following day
    • the weekend
    • the holidays
  • Prepositional phrases:
    • at 6 o’clock
    • in the morning
    • on Monday
    • during the summer
    • since last year
    • before the meeting
  • Adverbial phrases:
    • recently
    • lately
    • soon
    • eventually
    • always
    • never

Adjuncts can be used to make time expressions more specific and to provide more context about the time of an event or action. They can also be used to create different types of time expressions, such as relative time expressions (e.g., “since last year”) and durational time expressions (e.g., “for an hour”).