An informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. Colloquialisms are not substandard or illiterate speech, says Maity Schrecengost. Rather, they are idioms, conversational phrases, and informal speech patterns often common to a particular region or nationality. Not found everywhere, colloquialisms are words and phrases that we learn at home rather than at school (Writing Whizardry, 2010). See Examples and Observations below.
So what causes us to be able to see the moon during the day? The moon has an orbit around the earth and we can see it at night because of the reflection of the sunâs rays and energy that bounce back to the earth. This is what gives the moon the brilliant white glow. Itâs important to also remember that the earth has a rotation and an orbit around the sun.
The phase of the Moon can tell you the time of day. For example, because a full Moon is seen when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, an observer on the Earth will see the Moon rise just as the Sun sets.n other words, the amount of the Moon that we can see changes over time in a cyclic period that repeats itself approximately once a month. (The actual period of this cycle is approximately 29.5 Earth days.) The cause of these phases is the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.