Sorry, Your Grocery Bill Is Going Up

Sorry, your grocery bill is going up

Everything from bad weather to high fuel prices is pushing food prices up this year and next, according to government forecasts.

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    Like, "I was in the grocery store yesterday when I ran into my friend Sally." But, "I was searching the closet for my brown shoes when I came across some old photographs." You wouldn't normally switch the two. But the differences are subtle and if you did, it would sound only slightly odd.
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    "Grocery" in the OP's example sentence functions as an adverb because it modifies the verb "shop" in grocery shop. Were "shop" a noun in this phrase, the noun grocery would be functioning as an adjective because it'd be modifying the noun "shop". I'd never say that '"grocery" is a noun and can't be used as a verb'.
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