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- the exact time of evening and night - English Language Learners . . .
Evening is from 5:01 PM to 8 PM, or around sunset Night is from sunset to sunrise, so from 8:01 PM until 5:59 AM This is just a general outline - it's more common to categorize these times based upon one's activities For example, we eat breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening
- word choice - On the evening Vs. In the evening - English Language . . .
I watched TV in the evening Suppr is 5 00 to 6 00 in the evening You do something or something happens on Monday Tuesday, etc morning I'll go to London on Sunday morning You do something or something happens on the evening of a particular date or event We planned to go out for dinner on the evening of my birthday
- time - 16:00 oclock afternoon or 16:00 oclock evening? - English . . .
Most people work during the daytime and go home in the evening The most standard working hours for most people are from 9 am until 5 pm It is unlikely people working these hours would consider anything before 5 pm to be "evening" The etymology of the word "evening" means the coming of the end of the day You're probably familiar with the
- What word do we use to mean evening breakfast?
For most people a meal that you eat in the afternoon is "lunch" and a meal in the evening is "supper" (or "dinner" or "tea" - depending on dialect) If you work at night and wake up in the afternoon you might say Joe works the night shift and so he wakes up at 5pm He has his breakfast in the evening, and his supper at 7am But this is unusual
- “On Sunday evening” or “In the Sunday evening”
Sunday evening and Sunday can both be fluid in their meaning, referring to either a duration of time: We waited for your call all Sunday evening We waited for your call all evening, Sunday We waited for your call all day, Sunday We waited for your call all Sunday and to a place in time: We met on Sunday We met on Sunday evening
- grammar - tomorrow morning vs. tomorrows morning - English Language . . .
Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and tomorrow night they all refer to different periods of the day after “today” Whereas the possessive apostrophe is used in: a good night's sleep (a good night of sleep) The possessive apostrophe replaces "of" and adds an "s" several good nights' sleep (several good nights of sleep)
- in the morning could mean tomorrow morning, but what about in the . . .
They suggest that the three terms ("in the morning", "in the afternoon", "in the evening") have equivalent meanings (next morning, next afternoon, next evening) and that there are simply practical reasons why the afternoon evening versions are less often heard (because they are more liable to be misunderstood, and so on) This is incorrect
- How to make phrase sentence about availability for a meeting
[I have been asked by the OP to post my comment as an answer Initially I decided not to because it had already been posted by Peter, but as I disagree with part of Peter's answer (see my comment below his answer), I thought it may be useful to post my own suggestions ]
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