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The phrase "Sunday afternoon" is an adverbial, but not an adverb. Sunday is a proper noun and afternoon is a noun. The same sort of adverbials occur as "this morning" or "last night."

e.g. "I'm leaving Sunday afternoon" is the same as "I'm leaving on Sunday afternoon" (adverbial phrase).

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