Frank Antonson
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Well, I am not quite ready to give up on "soon" ever being an adjective. Here in the USA, members of the University of Oklahoma are known as the "sooners", a name which derived from a "sooner clause" (wikipedia explains it).
Could the word only be an adjective in the comparative degree?
For me, in any case, the interest in this discussion relates back to the R-K ing of that original sentence. At present, I am still with Haylee in calling "soon" a predicate adjective. Replacing "was" with "occurred" in order to make "soon" an adverb seems to me to be a bit of a "cop out".
Could the word only be an adjective in the comparative degree?
For me, in any case, the interest in this discussion relates back to the R-K ing of that original sentence. At present, I am still with Haylee in calling "soon" a predicate adjective. Replacing "was" with "occurred" in order to make "soon" an adverb seems to me to be a bit of a "cop out".