tonight

«tonight» in Mova's school dictionary: this evening or this night, the one coming at the end of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb; noun (tonight)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tonight means this evening or this night, the one coming at the end of today. tree →

2) As a noun, tonight is the evening or night of today. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used for plans and weather («rain tonight»); in stories it builds suspense about what will happen. Phrases: «tonight's dinner», «later tonight», «not tonight».

examples

• We are having pizza tonight. tree →
• It will be cold tonight, so wear a jumper. tree →
• Tonight's show starts at seven. tree →
• Can I stay up late tonight? tree →
• Look for the full moon tonight. tree →
• I'll finish my homework tonight. tree →
• Not tonight, it's a school night. tree →
• “But I’m telling you that I go tonight.” tree →

note

One word, no hyphen today (to-night is old). «Tonight's» with an apostrophe. Compare: today (this day), tomorrow (next day), last night (the night before). Informal spelling «tonite» is not correct in schoolwork.

In the corpora

• Let's leave the landing light on tonight, and next time you can just say it's not for you."

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tonight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.