上班：1. go to work e.g. 我每天早上7点上班。 - I go to work at 7 o‘clock every morning. e.g.2 妈妈出门上班去了。 - Mom is out for work. 2. to work e.g. 我在微软公司上班。 - I work at the Microsoft Corporation. e.g.2 我在上班，晚点打给我。 - I'm working, call me later. It can only refer to your occupation as an employee rather than any other kinds of works. e.g. I have worked for five hours in order to fix my bike. 为了修好我的自行车，我已经上班了五个小时 - WRONG 为了修好我的自行车，我已经工作了五个小时 - CORRECT 工作：1. to work it can refer to all kinds of works. e.g. 我昨天工作到很晚。 - I worked till late in the night yesterday. e.g.2 我的电脑停止工作了。 - My computer has stopped working. 2. work as a noun e.g. 工作结束后我们去吃个饭吧。 - Let's have a meal after work. e.g.2 我很欣赏你的工作。 - I appreciate much for your work. PS: 上班 is more commonly used than 工作 when people say they are at work. 工作单位：the place you work, in other words, your company. Literally, it is "work unit" cuz China used to run a planned economy and everyone was arranged for their jobs. It's a bit like dispatching workers to units they belong to. The using frequency of this word is declining in modern life.

上班是动词 表示你的状态是在公司做事。比如 你在干什么？回答 我在上班。工作可以是动词也可以是名词，比如 你在干什么 回答也可以说 我在工作 。名词的意思是 我有一份工作 。工作单位是你工作或上班的地方，比如你的公司就是你的工作单位。

1/ "上班" and "工作” both refer to "work", but “上班” could only be used as a verb, while "工作“ can be a verb and a noun as well. When we want to express "he works at Apple Inc" ,we could say"他在苹果公司工作" or 他在苹果公司上班。 But when we say "he has a lot of work to do", we could only say "他有很多工作要做”。 We cannot say "他有很多上班要做。" 2/工作 also refers to "job", e.g. 找工作 look for a job 他的工作很有意思， his job is interesting. 3/工作单位 refers to the company, organization, institution which a person works with/for.

What does the grammar mean in the sentence? https://chinesebuffetnearmenow.net/ I have a few questions. What does mean? I don't understand what the grammar point sleep means in this sentence. Why wasn't if alone used?

请问“上班时间”中“上班”是什么词？ “上班很轻松”中的“上班”是什么词？ “工作很轻松”中的“工作”是什么词？