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13 sept. 2010 · English-US. 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.
18 déc. 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.
5 janv. 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.
25 janv. 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.
19 janv. 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.
17 sept. 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.
6 mai 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 ...
4 janv. 2019 · Deutsch. Jan 4, 2019. #5. I was drinking last night, so it was hard for me to focus, because I was drunk. I drank last night, so it was hard for me to focus because I was drunk. I drank last night. (Maybe I had one drink or two and the stopped.) I was drinking last night (to me this means maybe for an hour, maybe 2 maybe even all evening)
15 juil. 2021 · It rained continually through the night in 1, 2 and 4, but we don't know for sure in 3. I think we would assume it did though. But note we would never add 'yesterday' in any of these. Context would probably make it clear we meant 'last night', but if it's not clear, we could add 'last night' rather than 'yesterday.'
22 sept. 2012 · Amber_1010 said: A. It rained last night. ( one rain only, it happened and it stopped later, it took part in some time in the night) B. It was raing last night. ( it kept raining last night.) "Rain" is an event that takes place over a period of time, however small. Without further expressed context, both your sentences are stating the same thing.
