It is good conversational English. Some people would prefer "Tomorrow is a holiday because of / owing to Christmas." If you wish to use "due" (an adjective), some people would ask that you say, "Tomorrow's BEING a

Not odd. I read it here and wondered whether it was a typo or an acceptable, if rare, form: "Raspberry's column was bad, I mean ba-a-a-ad , in the Standard English sense, not the AAVE slang sense. The column was probably produced

10. Have you ever seen __ Everest? It's __ beautiful. a) the ... so b) nothing ... so c) nothing ... the 24. __ hotel provides __ evening entertainment for its guests. a) The ... nothing b) A... the c) The

Hi Philip, "They're coming to our house on Christmas " sounds odd to me, and I certainly wouldn't assume it referred to Christmas Day . It's amazing how English speakers manage to communicate at all, isn't it?

"They're coming to our house on Christmas " is a common construction to mean Christmas Day . Christmas is a season that begins on Dec. 25 and goes on for 12 more ("The 12 Days of Christmas"); any unspecified time during the

He visited them on Christmas. He visited them on Christmas Day. according to my understanding to christmas and my oxford dictionary. Christmas get the same meaning with Christmas Day. But how come my textbook says the first sentence is wrong.u

My new screenplay has a scene where the two characters are revealing their autobiographies to each other, and they are ... other about their pasts; however, I don't see how to do it without the way-too-long-to-be-cinematically-palatable

(A) The sale of PDAs is expected to continue to rise for the remainder of the fiscal year. (B) The sales of PDAs are expected to continue to rise for the remainder of the fiscal year. According to the Cambridge on-line dictionary (See

According to me, this is the only correct explanation. 好久不见 (haojiu bujian) is literally translated: Long time no see, so that's where the expression comes from. I'm a student Chinese and I've heard all Chinese people saying it like

Thanks, Nona! I forgot about the subtle differences in the word "holiday". In American English, this word is used for days the government (national or state) has approved as annual non-working days. I think you all call these "bank