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Vocabulary

last evening

01. "He arrived here last night." - not 'yesterday night', right?02br
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002. "He arrived here yesterday evening." - not 'last evening'?02br
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0 Thank you very much. You don't say 'last evening', right? 0-
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0I would say last evening OR last night. Although the later it is, the more likely I'd say night.02br
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00"Last evening's performance of La Boheme marked the 50th time it was performed at that theater" - sounds fine to me.0-
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0 No... at least, not to mean 01i00the previous evening02i00. 0-
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0 Well, I'm not saying that "last evening" or even "yesterday night" are incorrect, they just sound unusual and awkward to me. My advice would be to stick to "yesterday evening" and "last night". If you want to sound very formal, you could even use "yestereve". 0-
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