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“Do you have” vs “Have you got” - English Language & Usage ...
I found where you got the statistics: the Separated by a Common Language blog.And one reason for the discrepancy with Google Ngrams is that"do you have" is rapidly gaining over"have you got" both in the US and the UK, and the British National Corpus was collected a decade or so earlier than the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and this time difference substantially increases the ...
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Is there a difference between"holiday" and"vacation"?
Briefly, a"vacation" is one that you plan. A"holiday" is one that is planned by government, tradition etc. e.g. School holiday, public holiday. For example, you take a"vacation" when you are free, i.e. during a holiday (or when you are out of work) You have a holiday when there is already one.
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What's the difference between"go on holiday" and"go for a holiday"?
In the uncountable form, 'holiday' is the time away. This is the 'go on holiday [for a few days]' form. The measure ('for a few days') is optional. There is no real difference in the overall meaning of the two forms, though the first might be felt to slightly emphasise the fact that the holiday has a specific fixed length.
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Holidays or holiday? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Oct 7, 2014 at 12:28. That"was" in both sentences was a little bit of distraction as my initial question was whether to use"holiday" or"holidays," assuming that"holidays" could be used as a singular noun in such context. It seems I'm wrong to assume"holidays" can be treated as a singular noun, but my initial question is answered.
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prepositions - When should I use"in" or"on"? - English Language ...
3. Just a note, but the bed thing may make more sense if you consider the coverings of the bed to be grouped together with the bed in such statements. It's why I think of someone being"in bed" when they're under the covers, but"on the bed" if they're on top of the covers. When the bed has no covers, it's undefined behavior.
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At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
1. The origin of"at night" to indicate a point of time and the usage of prepositions"in" and"at". In olden times, when the time expression"at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time unlike daytime.
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Is it “in” or “on the holidays”? - English Language & Usage ...
On is used in the following: on the weekend (AmEng), on Christmas day and on Easter Sunday. The preposition on is normally used for dates (i.e. on 25th December) and days of the week. In British English, people ‘go on holiday’ but in American English they ‘go on vacation’. In is normally used with ‘weeks’, ‘months’ and ‘years ...
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etymology - Is"holiday" derived from"holy day"? - English Language ...
1. Holiday is a compound stemming from the words holy and day. The word 'holiday' first surfaced in the 1500's replacing the earlier word 'haliday' which was recorded before 1200 in the Old English book Ancrene Riwle. Earlier , about 950, the word was 'haligdaeg' and appeared in the Old English Lindisfarne Gospels.
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"At the moment" or"in the moment"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...
15."At the moment" means right now. For example,"He's asleep at the moment"."In the moment" means with a special focus on the present time. For example,"living in the moment" means paying special attention to what you're doing at that particular time, as opposed to looking back on the past or planning for the future. Share.
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word choice -"on the train" or"in the train"? - English Language ...
27. Both, but they are used differently. Being on the train is the most common use. When you travel by train, you usually say that you are on the train. If you want to describe your position, you could say that you are in the train, for example: The train has derailed, I have a broken leg. You can find me in the train. Share.
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