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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
- phrase choice - Good Evening vs Good Night - English Language Learners . . .
However, "good evening" by itself is considered more of a greeting rather than a farewell so I recommend saying "Have a good evening" instead You could also say something like "Goodbye and good evening to you" We usually say "Good night" when the time is for a normal person to sleep, like 9-6pm for instance
- “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)
- Appropriate Time of Greeting Good Evening
it was seven o'clock in the evening Evening (Lexico) Cambridge does not provide a time: the part of the day between the end of the afternoon and night Evening (Cambridge Dictionary) The BBC seems content to place 5 PM in the 'afternoon', and 6 PM in the 'evening': The bombing in Norwich began on Tuesday July 9th 1940 at five o'clock in 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
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