"although" /"but"

I'd say "was late" in both cases.

Yes, the final result is the same, and the data are the same.

This is how I would write it: (a) although he was late, he managed to catch the night bus. / (b) he was late, but (yet)/(in spite of that)/(nevertheless) he managed to catch...

Hly2004for example :

(a)although he's late ,he caught the night bus.

(b)He's late,But he caught the night bus.

Do both sentences have the same meaning.?

Curious. Where I come from, you catch the night bus because you're late.

(You would be more likely

MrP, I think Hly2004 means that although he stayed late in the office working on a project, he still managed to catch the night bus (instead of an earlier departure bus).

If you are early, wouldn't you catch the afternoon bus to go home?

Hello Danyoo

Well, "night buses" in London are special services that run at night; so if you catch one, it's because you're late. Here's some info:

[url="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/travelinfo-night-buses.asp"]Night buses[/url]

MrP

That's very interesting, Mr. P. But I suppose most cities do not have such bus services 24 hours around the clock. The setting for the original question, I presume, is that the night bus is the last bus in a day. Where I live, it is the one that departs at 9 PM. Personally I have plenty experience of trying to catch it as I often work overtime.

Vincent

Hello Vincent

I've never heard "night bus" used in that sense before; in London at least, and possibly the UK generally, it would mean "a special bus that ran at night, after the normal buses had stopped running".

But it may well mean something different in another dialect!

MrP