In the morning vs. at night

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It is an interesting question. Here are my random thoughts. First, I can think of examples of "in the night" -

• The things that go bump in the night.
• She was awakened at some point in the night by her recurring nightmare.
• .. like two ships passing in the night.
• During the summer, bears sometimes sleep a few hours in the night.

However, we use "

Thanks! These are good examples, I haven't though about, of when we can use "in the night".

For your example - He comes home late at night.
If you change it to the morning, you would say - He comes home early in the morning.
Is this correct?

And I think it is the same for your next example as well. - We like to take our walks at night when it is cool.
Thi

astrofrogExamples are -
Eight o'clock in the morning
Two o'clock in the afternoon
Five o'clock in the evening
Ten o'clock at night

Are these correct? Would it ever be correct to say, "ten o'clock in the night"?

Your examples are correct. The use of "at" with "night" is just a curiosity in English. There's no real reason. I d

I would suggest that we use "in" for unspecified time, and "at" for specified time. That said, it would be common in a daily schedule to distinguish between these two. If I have a meeting "in the morning" or "at 11:00", for instance, I would distinguish these. During the night, however, we do not have normally scheduled activites, we are asleep, so we think of the whole period of inactivity as

here is my theory. think of "in" as inside definitive hours (inbetween). for example in May = between 1st and 31st. In 2018 = between jan and dec 2018. In the morning is from 12am to 12 pm and in the afternoon 12pm until night fall. BUT night doesnt have a specific timeline as it changes seasonally; so you have to say at night... however you can say in the NIGHT TIME!! dont all thank me at once.