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Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Every Sunday in the evening

Can I say,

Every Sunday in the evening, I will go to visit my friend, Peter.
  

Top answer

Every sunday evening I'll go to visit my friend Peter. I don't know if you can use in the evening here, wait for other opinions

  • Every sunday evening I'll go to visit my friend Peter.
  • I don't know if you can use in the evening here, wait for other opinions
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Every sunday evening I'll go to visit my friend Peter.

I don't know if you can use in the evening here, wait for other opinions
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This is my approach:
"...In the evening...." certainly sounds a bit stiff if not odd in this context.
Alex-93Every sunday evening I'll go to visit my friend Peter.
This is a better version. There is nothing wrong with using "evening", but it's not necessary . However, I would omit "in". And personally I prefer emphasizing the intended action before the adv
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I think that your sentence has got nothing wrong. It's your personal choice to use any of these versions:

Every Sunday in the evening, I will go to visit my friend Peter.
I will go to visit my friend Peter every Sunday in the evening.
On Sunday evenings, I will go to visit my friend Peter.
I will go to visit my friend Peter on Sunday evenings.

I will ch
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zafar142003Readers, anything wrong with the above sentences?
Not that I can see. (The last is the most idiomatic, in my opinion.)

CJ
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Hi,

Perhaps we should mention to Vincent that these two sentences have different meanings.

I wonder if he intends the latter.



Every Sunday in the evening, I will go to visit my friend, Peter. (future habit)



Every Sunday in the evening, I go to visit my friend, Peter. (current habit)



Cliv

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