Which day yesterday is depends on the context of the speech act, i.e. when you say it. Unlike common nouns, they don’t take determiners. You can’t say The yesterday was great. Unlike adverbs and prepositions, they have a possessive form. Compare: [Usually’s / After’s / Now’s / Yesterday’s] performance was great. More @Wikipedia
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