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Bookmark or Share- At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange1. The origin of "at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions "in" and"at". In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time unlike daytime.
- word usage - 1 o'clock in the morning OR 1 o'clock 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'.
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?5. "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:
- differences - Evening and night in English - English Language & Usage ...evening - starting vaguely around or after dinnertime, 5-8pm, and vaguely ending closer to bedtime, 7pm to 9pm. night - starting roughly 7pm and lasting till roughly 4am maybe 5am the next morning. Note that these are vaguely independent on the individual's meal and bedtime, but also independent of the time of year and latitude.
- meaning - How should "midnight on..." be interpreted? - English ...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 midnight. Should not be confusing to anyone.
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