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I have the following sentence in my grammar book:

You studied all night last night, so tonight you ...

As I know we can say just "all last night".

What's the need to add "night" in that phrase to get "all night last night"? Does it has some different meaning?

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    There might be some subtle nuance difference that I can't think of right now, but I believe they're the same. "All night last night" happens to be more idiomatic than "all last night"
    – gotube ♦
    Jan 4 at 17:59
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I don't think there's a difference. "All last night" is possibly a slightly more colloquial version and almost sounds like a shortened form of "all night last night." The same phenomenon occurs with "all week last week" -> "all last week."

Can you say "I studied all yesterday" instead of "all day yesterday"? I think the answer is yes, but it begins to sound slightly more awkward/more colloquial to me.

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