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- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 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
- At night or In the night - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What can I say about a thing happened at night? Someone stole my phone at night OR Someone stole my phone in the night Which one is right to say?
- word usage - 1 oclock in the morning OR 1 oclock at night? - English . . .
Do you think '2 o'clock in the morning' might somehow actually mean '2 o'clock in the afternoon', as that's the only alternative? I suppose I can see your point if someone says '11 o'clock at night' for 11pm, but again, unless you're above the arctic circle, the distinction with '11 o'clock in the morning', or any normal representation of 11am, is surely clear
- Whats the difference between “by night” and “at night”?
The expression by night is typically used to contrast someone's nighttime activities to their daytime activities, especially when the nighttime activities are unusual or unexpected
- indirect speech - Last night = the previous night the night before . . .
It was a bright frosty morning The whole composition before him, when he stood where he had stood last night, was clearly discernible Is it possible for last night to mean the previous night in indirect speech (as opposed to the past one)? Secondly, is this a general deictic use of the adjective last in indirect clauses?
- nouns - Can nighttime be used instead of night-time? - English . . .
I forgot where but I saw the word "night-time" written like "nighttime" Now is that correct or accepted? Can it be written as a single word? I am specifically concerned about British usage I did
- Can we use day and night time instead of day and night?
4 Day and night time is not an idiomatic or set phrase (unlike day and night), but it can be used appropriately in certain contexts, particularly in technical ones Here is a relevant usage I've found: The English word day can be used to refer to the time of daylight or to the unit of time that encompasses both day and night time
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
“Good night” or “good evening”? I am in the process of creating a software application which displays a greeting to users based on the time of day I have come to a blank on what to display to the user when it is late at night 'Good night, [user's name]' just doesn't seem right So, what is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
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