Question Hi, there Could you help me with two questions? Please!! 1) Do you say "late at night", "late in the night" or "late into the night"? "We chatted until late at/in the night" "We danced lat

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Question Hi, there Could you help me with two questions? Please!! 1) Do you say "late at night", "late in the night" or "late into the night"? "We chatted until late at/in the night" "We danced late into the night" "We danced until night/nighttime "We talked until the early morning" 2) Does it sound odd to say "We worked away in the field all day" "We chatted the whole day away"? Thank you

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1) All three can be correct but have slightly different meanings. If you say "we chatted late at night" the length of the chat could be brief or long. If you say, "we chatted late into the night" it means that you had a long conversation that ended late at night. To me, it sounds more natural to say "late at night" instead of "late in the night". And I wouldn't use "until" in the first sentence. I don't have a good explanation, but it just sounds a bit off to me as a native English speaker. 2) Both of those sentences sound fine to me.

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Hi, there

Could you help me with two questions? Please!!

1) Do you say "late at night", "late in the night" or "late into the night"?

We chatted until late at night. We chatted until late into the night. We chatted all night. ~ these are all okay

We danced late into the night.---good
We danced until night. ---good We danced until nighttime. ----good

"We talked until the early morning."~good, you don't need the 'the', (we talked until early morning) but it's good either way.

2) Does it sound odd to say
"We worked away in the field all day"----this sounds like it's from a song or poem. It'd be better to say, "We worked in the field all day." I think I've heard something like, "We worked the day away."

"We chatted the whole day away"----good

Thank you

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