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Sep 13, 2010 · Sep 13, 2010. #3. "Last night" should be able to replace "on the last night" in most contexts. In terms of meaning, the two expressions are similar. Using "on the last night" emphasizes "the last night" as one of a series of nights: We were there for a week. We camped for the first five nights.
Dec 18, 2008 · Dec 19, 2008. #10. It isn't always the case, but often Yesterday evening is more specific than Last night. Yesterday evening usually refers to a period the preceding day from about 5 at the earliest to midnight at the latest, whereas Last night generally refers to any time before you went to sleep, starting from erm… late afternoon.
Jan 19, 2010 · Jan 19, 2010. #2. nights is plural, night's is possessive. You use night's in this case because the events belonged to last night. I reserved accommodation for two nights. I reserved two nights' accommodation. I am on holiday for one week. I am on one week's holiday. Bonus example: I am on a one-week holiday.
Jul 15, 2021 · Are these all valid and meant the same: 1) It rained all last night. 2) It rained all night (long) yesterday. 3) It rained overnight yesterday. 4) It rained the whole night yesterday. Do #2, #3 and 4 imply "last night" in its entirety or the part of it from X pm. to midnight?
Jan 25, 2009 · Perhaps its just the apparent contradiction in saying day and night in the same phrase that makes it less idiomatic. Maybe we could say yesternight (not actually a word). Yesternight (the night of yesterday, last night) has been a word since 1334 (OED). It may not be used a great deal these days but it was used by several 19th century writers.
Jan 6, 2012 · Southern England. English - England. Jan 6, 2012. #4. For some reason yesterday night and last evening are much rarer in my experience than last night and yesterday evening. I've always though that this was because the night was almost as much today's as yesterday's, whereas the evening was clearly yesterday's.
Sep 17, 2020 · Last night = the night immediately preceding the present moment. Today is Thursday. Where Kate had stood last night = where she stood on Wednesday night. But bear in mind that this is an imaginary fragment of a unknown writing, possibly written in the first person with all the emotional (i.e. illogical) implications that that brings.
May 6, 2021 · May 6, 2021. #2. No, they are not; B would be the correct answer here. "How did you sleep last night" asks for the quality of the sleep (i.e. good, bad, etc.), while "where did you sleep last night" asks for the physical location of where you slept (i.e. my bedroom). While both are legitimate questions, given the context of the answer, we can ...
Jul 31, 2015 · Korean. Aug 1, 2015. #5. Hildy1 said: Last night is the night before today. The night before is the night before some other day, either past or future. Then, by definition, I cannot use "last night" in a past perfect sentence, and if I mean to refer to the night before the given day in a past perfect sentence, I must use "the night before."
Sep 2, 2016 · NJ, USA. English - US. Sep 2, 2016. #3. I would never say "all night long yesterday". I would use "all last night" to mean "all of last night until I went to sleep" or "all of last night during my sleep". - All last night I wanted a beer, but we didn't have any left. - All last night I had bad dreams.
