- 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:
- 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
- tenses - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Thus, I can ask whether you have seen it [at some indeterminate time in the past] Last night's showing of the episode, however, is a one-time thing, which you either caught or you didn't Thus, I can't ask "*Have you seen last night's showing of House MD", at least not without sounding a bit awkward –
- Different ways to say you are leaving work for the day
Let me call it a day! Good evening (or night, depending on time)!| I'm leaving! Enjoy the rest of the day (if time is left of the workday) May I leave? (asking permission, if allowed to leave early) (Good)bye! I'm all done; heading home Bye! You can be creative, but you don't want to sound 'outlandish', for sure!
- word choice - On tomorrow vs. by tomorrow - English Language . . .
I think we can make this answer better by including all of the limited number of pertinent adverbs So rather than the current conclusion, You never use the preposition on to govern adverbs such as today or tomorrow, we could have _You never use the preposition on to govern the following adverbs: today, tomorrow, and yesterday, last week, last night or last [name of any day of the week] or
- grammar - Heavily raining or Raining heavily? - English Language . . .
It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland (active verb + heavily) (active verb + heavily) It may be that the "meteorological" factor might not play a big role in the position of adverbs, but there seems to be some kind of pattern
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