Please help to identify whether the word late is an adjective or an adverb? and please reason out why...
John woke up late, and ended up missing his school.
I would leave out "his" it's not very natural.
***NOT A TEACHER***Esuru, good afternoon. Two of my very good dictionaries say that "late" in "arrived late" is an adverb. I believe that you could call it an adverb in your sentence. "Late" seems to tell us when John woke up. Thank you.Please help to identify whether the word late is an adjective or an adverb? and please reason out why...
John woke up late, and ended up missing his school.
Welcome to the forums. It could be either, which would you choose, you may as well choose one because you are probably going to get a variety of opinions. I would leave out "his" it's not very natural.
Because John woke up late he was unable to attend his classes at school.How, then, can we refer to the fact that that particular day he didn't attend his classes at school?:-?
Because John woke up late he was unable to attend his classes at school.
John woke up late and ended up missing his classes at school.Yes; I understand that part. The fact is that some replies make a reference to the specific point of not using "his" school. Hence, my question was : taking into account the first sentence posted, how he/she can say what he/she intended to say but with other words and without changing many things in the sentence.
Although it may seem so, it is not a tongue-twister. ;-)
Thank you