If you want to learn how to use the phrases at night and in the night accurately, it will help to find examples written by teachers, or examples from dictionaries, rather than making them up yourself.
If you want to learn how to use the phrases at night and in the night accurately, it will help to find examples written by teachers, or examples from dictionaries, rather than making them up yourself.
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When something happens between the evening and the morning, you can use both ‘at night’ and ‘in the night’. However, ‘in the night’ is much less common and is used to mean 'during the night'. AT NIGHT
Someone stole my car in the night. Possible, if you're saying this the next morning or afternoon. Someone stole my car at night. Grammatical, but unlikely.