Appropriate Time of Greeting Good Evening To a large extent the start of 'evening' is a matter of opinion or convention The Oxford Dictionaries say that it 'usually' starts at 'about' 6 PM Note the lack of a definite rule Evening NOUN 1 The period of time at the end of the day, usually from about 6 p m to bedtime it was seven o'clock in the evening Evening (Lexico) Cambridge does not provide a time: the part of the day between
word order - Tomorrow evening OR evening tomorrow OR - English Language . . . When you are more specific with the time- “tomorrow evening”, “Monday afternoon”, “February 15th”, etc- you would not use “in” or “the” “On” would be used for the latter 2 expressions Not sure if there’s a reason for this or if it’s just idiomatic
Will you work this evening? vs Will you be working this evening? To this native speaker, "Will you work this evening?" more strongly implies that the addressee has a choice (or had a choice, if the decision has already been made), whereas "Will you be working this evening?" is more likely if someone else (management?) has already made that decision But perhaps I'm effectively making the same distinction as @Kate above
What word do we use to mean evening breakfast? Usually we use the word "breakfast" in the morning to mean to eat something, but what word do we use to mean "afternoon breakfast" and "evening breakfast"?
“On Sunday evening” or “In the Sunday evening” Here, in the last sentence, I used IN Sunday evening, as we do with “On school vocation”; ON related to vocation, not school So here IN related to evening, not Sunday
grammar - What are you doing going-to-do this evening? - English . . . What will you do this evening? But this doesn’t necessarily mean that the book is wrong; it may be that something in the instructions excludes constructions with BE going to from consideration in this particular question