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Can an adverb modify a noun?

Adverbs are supposed to modify adjectives, verbs and other adverbs. However, in the phrase "The meeting yesterday", yesterday is an adverb and it modifies the noun 'meeting'. Does anyone have a convincing explanation for this?

Noyi 6 Oct 28
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"friendly person"

Orbit Level 7 Oct 29, 2018

Ending in ly doesn't make a word and adverb.

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Lively dance, stately procession, quietly advancing......etc

Although 'lively' and 'stately' looks like adverbs, they're really adjectives. Adjectives can modify nouns as in your phrases. Quietly is an adverb and iy rightly modify the verb advancing in your sentence.

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It would help to place the phase in some context:

I attended the meeting yesterday. Yesterday modifies attended.

The meeting yesterday elected a new treasurer. Yesterday modifies elected.

Can you place the phrase in a sentence in such a way that yesterday does not modify a verb?

The shortage of coal internationally is the problem. (here the adverb 'internationally ' modifies the noun 'shortage'

@Noyi no it doesn't. the sentence is not technically correct. it should read "the international shortage of coal," not "the shortage of coal internationally," in which "internationally" modifies "is" -- which is an inaccurate way to phrase it. incorrect sentences don't count as examples of how something can be done correctly lol.

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@genessa
Such sentences are correct. Grammarians like Randolph Quirk, Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech are of the view that with constraints adverb postmodification of noun is possible

@Noyi they are certainly entitled to their opinions, if indeed those are their opinions and not being misinterpreted. assuming they are, they are entitled at any rate.

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@Noyi
Why do you think internationally is an adverb?
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@skado
Dictionaries label it as an adverb

@Noyi
My guess is that the adverb "internationally" modifies the implied verb, "exists".
The shortage of coal (that exists) internationally is the problem.

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Maybe modifies an “assumed” verb:
The meeting (that was held) yesterday.
?? I don’t really know??

skado Level 9 Oct 28, 2018
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Maybe in that particular case “yesterday” is an adjective.

In “build high”, “high” serves as an adverb, modifying “build”, but in “high building” it is an adjective.

'Yesterday' is not an adjective, it's always sm adverb

Not sm but an. It was a typo

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