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qingqing  #285777  Thu, 26 Oct 06 10:47 AM

"this morning---yesterday morning--the day before yesterday in the morning" /  the night before last        Right?

How to express the previous morning or evening?  What about "in the morning before yesterday"? And how to express a morning after tomorrow?

Look at this sentence, "She was too tired to do nothing the evening before".  If it happened in the evening before yesterday(if we can say so), is it right?

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Mister Micawber  #285903  Thu, 26 Oct 06 03:07 PM

I'm not really sure of your question, but:

Today is Thursday.
This morning = Thursday morning.
Yesterday morning = Wednesday morning
The day before yesterday in the morning = in the morning two days ago = Tuesday morning.
Tomorrow morning = Friday morning
In the morning the day after tomorrow = Saturday morning.

There are minor variations.


  
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qingqing  #286090  Fri, 27 Oct 06 02:10 AM

What I want to ask is how to express the time correctly?

Which of the following is right? How does the native people express it?

the day before yesterday in the morning / in the morning before yesterday / the day before yesterday morning / on the morning of the day before yesterday / the morning before last / the morning before

  
Mister Micawber  #286160  Fri, 27 Oct 06 06:35 AM

Of yours, these are OK and clear:

the day before yesterday in the morning / the day before yesterday morning / on the morning of the day before yesterday / the morning before last



  
nona the brit  #286224  Fri, 27 Oct 06 11:34 AM

But realistically native speakers, as MM pointed out, would use the name of the day - Friday morning, Wednesday morning, etc.

I've never heard anyone say anything as convoluted as 'the day before yesterday in the morning'.

People would think you were quite strange if you said that. They would be able to work out what you meant but would wonder why you were saying it in such an odd way.

  
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Mister Micawber  #286227  Fri, 27 Oct 06 11:42 AM

They do seem odd on paper of course, but as a casual conversation in passing, I can well imagine (and hence approved) e.g. The day before yesterday-- in the morning-- I went to Tokyo...

  
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