In that example, it surely is an adverb, but if you read Walt's later
message, you will see that it *can* be adjectival, being the comparative
form of "late" (rather than the superlative form "latest").
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ian Nichols
Sent: 07 September 2006 16:21
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] The Do's and Don'ts of apostrophe placement
On 07/09/06, Tom Fenwick <super.wide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have read both Ian and Walt's contributions and while not happy with
> the former I'm not totally convinced by the latter. However, latterly
> I've learned caution, so will leave this for later...
I'll concede that Walt is right about "later" being an adverb rather than an
adjective (doh! arriving is something that's *done* after all).
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