Talk:tomorrow
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Coppertwig in topic Why pronoun?
Why pronoun? change
Although tomorrow (along with today, tonight, and yesterday) is traditionally analysed as a noun in cases like "Tomorrow will be a nice day" and as an adverb in sentences like "I'll see you tomorrow", this is unwarranted. That tomorrow and the others are pronouns rather than basic nouns is demonstrated by the fact that they don't allow determiners. Consider the following:
- The house will be nice
- *The tomorrow will be nice.
- Tomorrow will be nice.
- It will be nice.
The analysis as an adverb would require many words or phrases that are clearly nouns to be analysed as adverbs. Consider the following.
- I'll see you tomorrow.
- I'll see you a week from now.
- I'll see you many times.
- I saw you last year.
- He worked a long time.
- I don't want you to do it that way.
See the w:en:CGEL p. 564. (That message was posted by User:Brett.)
- I like how making it a pronoun means you only need one section, not two sections for noun and adverb. I didn't like the two sections because they really both mean the same thing. --Coppertwig 01:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)