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"UNPUBLISHED STUDIES, SOME SEEN BY SCIENCE, SUGGEST SATELLITE TRAILS COULD RUIN ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE IMAGES FROM THE RUBIN OBSERVATORY DURING PARTS OF THE NIGHT."
why there is THE before NIGHT?
for me it looks that we surely do not know what particular night we are talking
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e. not easily predictable from rules). Another example might be "I like to watch TV in the evening" when talking about our general behaviour.
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- not easily predictable from rules).
- Another example might be "I like to watch TV in the evening" when talking about our general behaviour.
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- we say "at night" and not "at the night".
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The use of the definite article with time periods such as "night", "day", "evening", "morning", even when no specific instance is meant, is somewhat idiomatic (i.e. not easily predictable from rules). Another example might be "I like to watch TV in the evening" when talking about our general behaviour. The use of articles can also be dependent in idiomatic ways on the wider phrasing; e.g. we s
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