2011年3月3日 · Also, note that "holiday" in the sense of extended personal time away from work is BE only. In AE, that would be a "vacation." In AE "holiday" refers only to public or religious …

2019年4月6日 · Hello, I am reading a book. It's called Business Vocabulary in Use by Bill Mascull. In one lesson it teaches us how to use the word "holiday". It says we should say: To …

2013年8月12日 · But "holiday" as a noun has a singular sense (of a single day). I might add that the origin of this word is "holy+day" (where the "y" becomes an "i"), referring to religious …

2011年9月2日 · I'd say "a ten-day holiday." Aside from the fact that presence in the results of a Web search aren't a guide to correctness, most of the top Google hits* for "ten days holiday" …

2014年3月3日 · Where I live, it would be more common to say "Enjoy the rest of your day off." For us, "holiday" usually refers to shared days of celebration, like Christmas, or New Year's Day. …

2011年4月7日 · There is a big difference here between British and American usage. In American usage, "holiday" can mean something like "a special day". For example, "Mothers Day is a …

2020年6月2日 · Normally, in Taiwan, when a holiday happens on a Tuesday, the government will render Monday of that week a holiday and make the next Saturday a "make-up" day. The point …

2011年2月17日 · "On holiday/vacation" can only be used with "to be" in a temporary, transient, or imperfect past sense. This makes sense; it's the same reason you say "estar de vacaciones" …

2011年3月1日 · That day I was really sick. This could mean I became really ill on that day. On that day, I was really sick. This could mean that perhaps I had good days and bad days but that …

2019年4月17日 · You might use the second if you thought they might have done something special yesterday morning - perhaps it was a half-day holiday - but there is considerable …