Exercise 34. Explain the use or the absence of articles with names of times of the day and night in the following sentences.

1. Just come along here on_Monday morning. 2. You are like a May morning. 3. It was still only_early afternoon, but the grey Arctic twilight was already thickening over the sea. 4. For the last two years, six times a week, I’d come in an hour before_midnight and left at eight in the morning. 5. Once during the day she passed through and seeing him wrinkled her brows. 6. On the morning when Mr. Clayton of Pike House rang up we had had a night of continuous snow. 7. The curtains let enough sun through for me to see that it was a nice day. 8. Bateman wondered how he should begin on the conversation which all the events of the day made him think more urgent. 9. It was a clear warm night and Thomas sat on the afterdeck, smoking a pipe, admiring the stars, waiting for Mr. Goodhart. 10. It was the moment when_afternoon and_evening hang balanced in mid-heaven. 11. We were to have gone away together this morning at_dawn. 12. _Dusk was falling, the river rippled darkly and the fleet of barges across the way was almost shapeless. 13. There were other moments when time was like a shadow on the mountains which seemed to stand still all_day long. 14. What am I doing here on the other side of the country, when my mother is sitting alone, all by herself, _night after_night, crying? 15. You couldn’t tell what his expression was behind the dark glasses he wore_night and_day. 16. He rode through the night and reached the Abbey shortly after_dawn. 17. From the evening of the day when Constance Mackenzie was introduces to Michael, a new tension began to make itself felt in the Mackenzie household. 18._Day and _night had no essential meaning. 19. The morning, for all its shadowed moments, had promoted me to a new level of friendship. 20. Her remarks at being dragged out of bed at that hour of_Sunday morning were expressed frankly and unprofessionally, but she listened to his story attentively.

Exercise 35.Insertarticles where necessary.

1. Outside it was…night. (Murdoch) 2. It was…warm summer night. (Snow) 3. …night outside seemed very quiet. (Greene) 4. It was…foggy evening in November. (Murdoch) 5. During…evening, we played innumerable games of piquet... (Maugham) 6. It was…evening, and he was walking across the school grounds on his way home. (Saroyan) 7. He wondered what hour it was….sun seemed to indicate…late morning... (Greene) 8. I think it's going to be…fine morning, after all. (Shaw) 9….morning was cold and sharp and sunny. (Greene) 10. It is…early morning. (Shaw) 11. We are going to have…ideal night. (Shaw) 12….night being sharp and frosty, we trembled from…head to…foot. (Dickens) 13. It was early in…afternoon. (Murdoch) 14. …night was…windy one, with broken clouds drifting swiftly across…face of…three-quarter moon. (Conan Doyle) 15. …night came and he sent his sadness into his sleep. (Saroyan) 16. I was up at six in…morning. (Shaw) 17. She has had…bad night, probably…rather delirious night. (Shaw) 18. The machines at…factory were in perpetual motion…day and…night. (Murdoch) 19. Arthur did not pass…sleepless night; he slept long and well, for…sleep comes to…perplexed, if…perplexed are only weary enough. (Eliot) 20. It was about ten o'clock at …night. (Maugham) 21. …fine September after­noon was dying fast. (Galsworthy) 22. I persuaded him to stay…night with me, and I put him into my own bed. (Maugham) 23. It was…morning after Roger had talked to me in… Park, and Margaret and I were sitting at breakfast. (Snow) 24….day was by this time approaching; …West was dim, …East begin­ning to gleam. (Ch. Bronte) 25. On…bright January morning, …telephones kept ringing in my office. (Snow) 26. I cannot describe to you…intense silence of…night. (Maugham) 27. I shall not forget…evening I spent with him. I had not intended to stay more than…hour, but he insisted that, I should spend…night. (Maugham) 28. He painted and he read, and in…evening, when it was dark, they sat together on… veranda, smoking and look­ing at…night. (Maugham) 29. It was as lovely… morning as one could desire. (Jerome K. Jerome) 30. It was…glorious night…. moon had sunk, and left…quiet earth alone with…stars. (Jerome K. Jerome) 31. Nell dropped curtsey, and told him they were…poor travelers who sought…shelter for…night. …schoolmaster told them that they were welcome to remain un­der his roof till…morning. (Dickens) 32. Every day I was up at…dawn, clearing, planting, working on my house, and at…night when I threw myself on my bed it was to sleep like…log till…morning. (Maugham. 33. Major Andrew Fontine sat rigidly at his desk, listening to the sounds of…morning. 34. It was … cloudy afternoon with an Italian butcher selling a pound of meat to a very old woman. 35. On …day of her mother’s funeral it had been blowing a gale, with sleet.