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MUSCOVITE Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

night or evening

Hi,

As he had to work all day long, ....
(1) he could only go the night school
(2) he could only go to the evening school
(3) he could only take night classes
(4) he could only take evening classes.

Which of these four versions are correct grammar and natural English? (If these example sentences are broken English, could you please correct them for me?)

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No examples of broken English, but only #3 is natural (#1 would be okay without the.)
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1. This is ungrammatical. It should be "he could only go to the night school.", and this would only be correct in the unusual situation where there was one school in town, and it had two divisions, called "the day school" and "the night school." Otherwise, you'd say "he could only go to night school."

2. This is similar to 1. This is grammatical, and it would only be correct in the u
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Consider moving "only" to be just before "night" (or evening, thought "night school" is much more common in the US than "evening classes).
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Philip,
Anonymous,
BarbaraPA,
Thank you so much!

There is one point that is still a little unclear to me....If you could clarify it?

to go night school (for the grammatically flawless "to go to night school")
to go college
to teach school (for "to teach at/in school"?)

are a kind of AmEng slang, aren't they? Nonetheless (although
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No, they are not slang. "To go night school" and "to go college" without the "to" are simply incorrect.
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