night
part of speech
noun (night, nights)
meaning for a pupil
1) The dark time between evening and morning when the sun cannot be seen. tree →
2) The evening, as a time for events: "a night at the cinema". tree →
3) "Good night" is said when going to sleep. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, night happens because the Earth spins: the side facing away from the Sun is in darkness; nocturnal animals like owls are awake at night. In safety: wear bright or reflective clothes if out at night; children need about ten hours of sleep each night. Phrases: at night, good night, last night, tonight, all night, overnight, night and day.
examples
- The stars shine at night. tree →
- Owls hunt at night. tree →
- Good night, sleep well. tree →
- Last night it rained. tree →
- Our side of the Earth faces away from the Sun at night. tree →
- Wear a bright jacket when you walk at night. tree →
- We stayed at Grandma's for two nights. tree →
- Bats are night animals. tree →
- That is why there are night-lights. tree →
note
"Night" sounds like "knight" (a soldier in armour) — homophones. Say "at night", but "in the evening". Plural "nights". Nights are longer in winter and shorter in summer.
In the corpora
- Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.
- That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."
- Date night is when a couple goes out together, just the two of them, which keeps their friendship strong.
- A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.
- A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «night» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.