Can I say, (i) Last week was Christmas. (ii) Last month was Christmas. P/s: I'm wondering whether we can say "Last week/ month" for a festival for one day only. How about a festival for a few days or a week? Do we say, "Last

Bert! Avert your eyes! New Sherlock Holmes Film to Explore Homoerotic Relationship Between Lead Characters New York Post Tuesday, August 04, 2009 Guy Ritchie's plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his

Great explanation, CJ. This smoothly seeped in, thanks! The key might have been 'with great difficulty.' This cast light on 'barely' for me, and let me see the flow of thinking more clearly. You know, CJ, you would respond with

Friends, I'm an English teacher and I would like to know from you, experts, whether I am teaching prepositions correctly or not, for this is a very difficult subject for students to learn, here in Brazil. Could you please correct

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So is the problem that you're finding 'THE' year. The 'the' in December is the last month of the year can happen in two ways. It can happen if part is specified (definite) but the whole is unspecified, but universal. So we

Hi forumers, I've been searching up and down for an answer to this. But couldn't hence I resorted to a forum. I believe I could get quite an accurate answer here. I was talking a friend the other day, about the things that the government

Retailers might consider the "holiday season" to begin at Thanksgiving Or Halloween. I know that the music that comes from the ceiling at Walgreen's Drug Stores here in California changes to Christmas music at midnight on Halloween.

I am on vacation = AmE usage I am on holiday s = BRE usage Plural makes more sense if it's an extended time off from work. If it's single, it'd mean one day. Department stores are operating on holiday schedules during