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- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The same with in the night, if someone said that you would think of any time between the hours of 8pm and 6am, or thereabouts However, at night generally means the specific time between when night begins and when you go to sleep, let's say between 8pm and 10pm It's similar with other specific times of day, such as at midnight or at noon
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
"Good night" as a greeting was once a feature found almost exclusively in Ireland In James Joyce's "The Dead", for example, it is used both as greeting: —O, Mr Conroy, said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming Good night, Mrs Conroy And as a farewell:
- word usage - 1 oclock in the morning OR 1 oclock at night? - English . . .
'Night' is defined as: "The period of time between 'Evening' and 'Dawn' " People tend to get confused at the difference between the terms 'DAY' and 'DATE' If it is Monday and it becomes 2 a m , since the light of the sun is no longer visible in the sky then that is the 'Night-of-the-previous-day", so it is 'Monday-Night'
- meaning - How should midnight on. . . be interpreted? - English . . .
The convention stems from the term itself Midnight comes from 'mid-night ' In conversation, the 'night' of which 'midnight' is in the middle, is considered the night of the date mentioned If you are referring to a deadline, this also will refer to the stroke of 12 after the evening of the same date Example: The paper is due by Friday at
- On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week
- grammar - Which one is correct? the last or last - English Language . . .
“Last Saturday”, not “the last” “You use last in expressions such as last Friday, last night, and last year to refer, for example,to the most recent Friday, night, or year ——- I got married last July He never made it home at all last night
- Difference between couldnt and wasnt able to
I don't quite understand a difference between "couldn't" and "wasn't able to" Someone suggested that we use "wasn't able to" when we talk about one action in the past and "couldn't" when repeated
- Worked or have worked? [duplicate] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
If you are describing a single night, you would always say "we worked," because the working is now over It happened completely in the past If you are describing several nights, up to and including last night, then you would say "we have worked," because then the "working" is ongoing, in a nightly sense "Yesterday" always refers to one day only
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