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"What will you do the day after tomorrow?"
Translation:明後日は何をしますか?
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Asatte, nani wo shimasu ka? The day after tomorrow, what (direct object particle) do (question particle)
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Strictly grammatically written and spoken Japanese probably a yes, spoken Japanese nope.
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The intro to this lesson said that was optional then this fails you if you miss it off
I'm not saying this is absolutely true, but as far as i've read, 何は is a really, really rare construct apart from direct questions about the nature of something and a couple of expressions listed below, and temporal terms (things to do with time, dates, hour) are usually at the front of the sentence
何はさておき : First of all, firstly
何はともあれ : In any case, either way
何は無くとも : More than anything else
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無-nothingness
無し なし without
無事 ぶじ safety
間も無く まもなく soon
間も無く まもなく shortly
無意識 むいしき unconscious
無関心 むかんしん apathetic
無限 むげん infinite
無罪 むざい innocence
無重力 むじゅうりょく weightless
無色 むしょく colorless
無駄 むだ futile/waste
無知 むち ignorance
無理 むり unreasonable/impossible/irrational
無利子 むりし interest free
無料 むりょう free
に marks a specific unchanging point in space/time, which works similar to the English prepositions "at, on" showing the relationship between the noun and the verb,
明後日 is a relative time which acts as an adverb; like the temporal noun "day after tomorrow" in English. Words like "tomorrow, today, yesterday" are all dependent on the current point in time for reference, and their exact meaning changes depending on the current time so they can't be pinpointed with prepositions like "at, on" and in Japanese the particle に. (Today's yesterday is not the same day as tomorrow's yesterday or the day after tomorrow's yesterday)
You can do something "On Monday" or "On the 3rd of March" but never "On tomorrow" or "On yesterday", etc.