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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
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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anonymous
49 days ago
Grammar, Conversational English, Adjectives, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Conversational, Christmas, Holidays, Languages
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My college had Constitution Day on Sep 16th, and I've assigned to write a synopsis for the day. I wrote and correct the numeric usage in the synopsis, but I still do not have a confidence with what I wrote. For example, I usually make SV
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kyorochan
65 days ago
Essays, Articles, Writing, Countries, United States, Mistakes, United Kingdom, Great Britain, American, Ireland, Usages, Holidays, New Zealand, Numbers, Easter
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Hi Lucille! I'm Annalisa (15 years old) and I'm italian. I'd like to chat with you cause I wanna improve my english too And maybe you could teach a little of spanish; it's almost like italian I think. I've been in Spain many
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-annalisa-
117 days ago
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I'll wait for confirmation from one more fluent in British English, but I believe you are combining BrE and AmE.
In AmE, holidays refers to specific days that the general public doesn't work: "The holidays" = time between
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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
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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
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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anonymous
154 days ago
Essays, Arts, Relationships, Countries, United States, United Kingdom, Great Britain, France, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Friends, Christmas, Holidays, Languages
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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?
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"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
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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
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I read that Peter Watkins' film "Privilege" has been released on DVD. It got *very* limited release when it was made, and practtically no air play. Well worth seeing out. A prescient film for its time.
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mc
182 days ago
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