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- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
"In ~ afternoon" suggests that the afternoon is a temporal space in-and-of-itself, wherein anything that happens will happen amongst many other events In other words, the temporal context for this usage would be if one were speaking of a single day -- whether past, present, or future -- and of a single afternoon, during which many things might
- When someone leaves at 4pm - should I say Have a good afternoon or . . .
In AmE, 4pm is still afternoon 5pm is not In summer, evening doesn't feel right if the sun is still high, which can happen in summer So 6pm isn't afternoon but may not feel like evening either Words can be vague Anyway, people don't say good afternoon or good evening much any more –
- articles - by afternoon or by the afternoon - English Language . . .
Although I prefer the sound of 'by the afternoon' or 'by that afternoon', Google ngrams (several tokens checked; no false positives) show that 'by afternoon' seems quite as idiomatic as 'by the afternoon' and was probably the preferred version between the 1940s and 1970s:
- meaning - When is afternoon? When is evening? When is night? Is there . . .
In Iran, we consider "evening" to run all the way from afternoon until sunset (4 pm – 8 pm), while "night" for us runs from right after sunset until the next sunrise; and we eat "dinner" at night, normally around 10 o’clock at night
- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
Growing up in Australia, it was breakfast in the early morning, morning tea mid morning, dinner at midday (hot main meal), afternoon tea mid-afternoon, tea in the early evening (sandwiches, soup etc) and then supper before bed (cup of tea cocoa, piece of cake) As time went on, work further away from home no longer permitted the midday "dinner"
- How do people greet each other when in different time zones?
Good morning, Good afternoon, and Good evening are not better They're bad No native English speaker ever says "Good Tuesday " If you're not sure whether it's morning, afternoon, or night where the person you're talking with is, just say "Hello " NOTE: Capitalize days of the week They're proper nouns
- phrases - What is the correct usage: In the morning of . . . vs. On the . . .
in + morning, afternoon, evening (in the morning, in the evening) But, when we talk about a specific morning, afternoon, or when we describe the part of the day it should be used with on: on the morning of [date], You can't say "I will see you on the morning" - it's incorrect
- Is the expression before the afternoon technically correct?
What the fragments "before the afternoon arrives" and "before the afternoon ends" do is make afternoon into something which can act, which can do something While day can break and night can fall, morning and afternoon don't generally do anything; they just are Consequently they don't end or arrive, and one says "before the end of the
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