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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
53 days ago
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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
69 days ago
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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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121 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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Two snowmen are standing in a field. One says to the other: "Thats funny, I smell carrots too". A blonde, a brunette, a red-head, a priest, a nun, an irishman and a talking pig walk into bar. The bartender looks at them and says,
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soka
145 days ago
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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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ESL General English Grammar Questions
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anonymous
155 days ago
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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
158 days ago
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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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