Articles with names of times of the day and night

§ 39. This semantic group includes the following nouns: day, night, evening, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, twilight, midnight, nightfall, daytime, sunrise, sunset.

Names of times of the day and night are used without any article in the following cases:

1. when they denote "light" or "darkness":

Dusk fell without my noticing it.

The sun set behind the hills and night came.

2. after the prepositions at, after, before, by, till, until, towards, past (at night, by evening, past midnight, at dawn, at dusk, before noon, till morning, until midnight, etc.):

Towards evening they went along to the restaurant car to have dinner.

All her life she always got up at dawn.

3. in the function of a predicative;

It was evening; the fishermen's boats were returning one by one.

It was dusk, but the men were still at sea.

4. when these nouns are modified by nouns denoting days of the week or the words yesterday or tomorrow:

He was the man who had sat on the Carlton terrace on Thursday afternoon.

We'll meet tomorrow morning.

5. in the combinations of adverbial character all day (long), all night (long), day after day, day in day out, from morning till night, night after night, day and night (night and day), from day to day:

The messenger rode day and night stopping only to change horses.

Workers at the first manufactures were made to work from morning till night.

Quietly Dr. Walker went to his work day after day.

Names of times of the day and night are used with the indefinite article if they are modified by descriptive attributes:

He told me how the sun set there on a spring afternoon.

It was a frosty night.

If these nouns are modified by the adjectives late or early, there is no article:

It was early morning.

By late afternoon the guests began to arrive for the official birthday party.

Nouns denoting times of the day and night are used with the definite article in the following cases:

1. when a specific night or day, etc. is meant (the limitation is mostly clear from the context or situation; sometimes a limiting attribute is used):

The rain had stopped and the night was starry.

The day came when he told her that he loved her.

The morning of his departure was raw and he was wearing a greatcoat.

2. when these nouns are used in a generic sense:

He spent the morning working at his novel and the afternoon walking in the fields.

3. after the prepositions in, during and through (in the morning, in the night, in the evening, in the daytime, in the afternoon, during the night, during the day, through the night, through the day, etc.):

It was six o'clock in the afternoon when he finally put the book down.

"The new edition came in the morning," the salesman said. "I'll get you a copy of the book."

"Perhaps one of the dogs knocked the parcel to the floor during the night," I spoke placating.

It snowed all through the night, and in the morning we saw that we were cut off from the world.

Note. After the preposition for both the definite and indefinite articles are possible depending on the meaning:

I must go to Sheffield for the day (the day is specified),

I must go to Sheffield for a day (for one day; it is not specified which day it is).

4. when these nouns are preceded by the pronoun other:

I met Jones in Oxford Street the other day.

He thought that he had seen the man come into the hotel lobby in company with McKinnon the other morning.

 

Закрепление грамматического материала Lesson 10

1. The Present Indefinite Tense (rule 1) – p. 129-130 (table № 2), spelling rules p. 131, ex. IV p. 132, ex. XII (a) p. 134, ex. 58, 59, 61, 64 p. 474-476 (in written form).

2. General questions in indirect speech (rule 2) – ex. XXII p. 137 (in written form).

3. Indefinite and negative pronouns (rule 3) – ex. XVI p. 135 (in written form).

4. Articles (rule 4) – ex. 68 p.477-478 (in written form).

5. Закрепление правил чтения – ex. II, III p. 131-132 (in written form).

6. Закрепление лексического материала – ex. XIV p. 138, ex. 70 p. 478 (in written form).