Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
Like a lot of common words next can be an adjective, adverb, preposition, or a noun itself. If you say "the next one", next is an adjective. If you say "we jump next" it is adverbial. I was interpreting audinue's (uncontextualized) statement in the context of programming, where it is most likely "move the next thing", wherein next is an adjective (it modifies the noun "thing"). If it was an instruction of the sort "subsequent to this, you move" it would be adverbial, but in most programming contexts there is no you because there is no other (and no "this" to be understood as subsequent to): the verb is applied to a noun, in this case, "next". So next is either a noun or an adjective there (as with programming languages that use "next" like C's "continue"; altho continue is a verb, these keywords have different spins IMO. It certainly cannot be an adverb there because that would be to say you are modifying the verb that continue represents, which you ain't).

next - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

"close" is almost a homonym but actually a heteronym. These are common to all or most languages and have nothing in particular to do with the "inconsistency of English".
Damn, I should have looked that up. Like I said, grammer never was my strongest suit. Thanks for setting that straight.