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- Sylviane346August 2020
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AussieInBgAugust 2020 An expression like "The party was on the whole night" would be more likely. "for all the night" doesn't collocate well for me as a native English speaker whereas "the whole night" or even "for the whole night" seems more comfortable We would also probably and more commonly use informal expressions such as: "The party went on all night." "The party lasted all night / the whole night". The phrasal verb "to be on" describes the process of something continuing that starts and stops with a switching action, e.g. "The radio is on." = "I have started the radio and the radio continues to operate right now. If you said something like "The party was on!", it would mean that within a second or two of starting, then the party is crowded, very busy, noisy and so on and this continues. |
vincentAugust 2020 thanks