5.112 Extended uses of time expressions

Time expressions and prepositional phrases can be used as qualifiers to specify events or periods of time.

• I'm afraid the meeting this afternoon tired me badly.
• The sudden death of his father on 17 November 1960 did not find him unprepared.
• ...until I started to recall the years after the Second World War.
• No admissions are permitted in the hour before closing time.

Clock times, periods of the day, days of the week, months, dates, seasons, special periods of the year, years, decades, and centuries can be used as modifiers to specify things.

• Every morning he would set off right after the eight o'clock news.
• Castle was usually able to catch the six thirty-five train from Euston.
• But now the sun was already shredding away the morning mists.
• He learned that he had missed the Monday flight.
• I had summer clothes and winter clothes.
• Ash had spent the Christmas holidays at Pelham Abbas.

Possessive forms can also be used.

• Tuesday's paper will be forced to carry an extra page to print all the corrections to statements in Monday's paper.
• It was Jim Griffiths, who knew nothing of the morning's happenings.
• The story will appear in tomorrow's paper.
• This week's batch of government statistics added to the general confusion over the state of the economy.