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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
The idea, I think, is that as an adverb it's akin to "normally" while it's a noun in the sense of "the normal case."
I wouldn't sweat it. The usage is so close to being the same that I've never even thought of it as noun versus adverb. I think sometimes it doesn't help to think like that w.r.t. Japanese anyway.
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Thanks Kyle. I normally don't think about it much either, because as you said, the classifications are so fluid but usually it makes more sense if you look at how it works in a sentence. In this case I just didn't get why いつも was labelled a noun at all, given they only put those examples! Thanks for the tips, that's cleared it up for me.