June 16, 2021
SUMMER HOLIDAY VS. SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Sample sentences:
1. What are your holiday ideas for this summer?
2. Have you booked any trips/excursions/holidays?
3. Did you do it through a travel agent's or by yourself through sites offering tickets and hotel rooms?
4. I wish you /What I wish you is a safe holiday but brimming with adventures. Enjoy your freedom from work "to the fullest".
Questions:
1.Can I use book "your holidays" meaning "your trips"?
2. When I ask 3 persons in turn about their summer break plans, is it correct to use Present Perfect for the first listener: "Have you booked a tour?" and then Past Simple for the second and third listeners respectively: "Did you book a tour?"
3. When I search the Internet for the uses of the plural word "holidays" with reference to SUMMER HOLIDAYS , I can’t find them -
Is it then more natural to talk about "going somewhere on holiday" , "on our holiday" (whole summer break), "on a holiday" / "for a holiday" (one summer outing/trip), and thus "planning our holiday", and "doing sth during our holiday" than
"going on our/ for our holidays", "doing sth in our holidays " and "shedulling our holidays "?
SUMMER HOLIDAY VS. SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Sample sentences:
1. What are your holiday ideas for this summer?
2. Have you booked any trips/excursions/holidays?
These all work but "holidays" is the most natural here. "Excursions" sounds a bit funny, "trips" could mean boring things like a trip to another city for work.
3. Did you do it through a travel agent's, or by yourself through sites offering tickets and hotel rooms?
The possessive works here but I wouldn't use it.
4. I wish you /What I wish you is a safe holiday but brimming with adventures.
"What I wish you" could work but it's unusual. It's emphasising how you wish *this*, when you might have wished something else. I could wish you a pleasant trip, but that's boring; what I wish you is a holiday brimming with adventures.
Enjoy your freedom from work "to the fullest".
We're pretty casual about using expressions like this without putting them in quotes :)
Questions:
1.Can I use book "your holidays" meaning "your trips"? 2.
When I ask 3 persons in turn about their summer break plans, is it correct to use Present Perfect for the first listener: "Have you booked a tour?"
and then Past Simple for the second and third listeners respectively: "Did you book a tour?
3. When I search the Internet for the uses of the plural word "holidays" with reference to SUMMER HOLIDAYS , I can’t find them -
Is it then more natural to talk about "going somewhere on holiday" , "on our holiday" (whole summer break), "on a holiday" / "for a holiday" (one summer outing/trip), and thus "planning our holiday", and "doing sth during our holiday" than
"going on our/ for our holidays", "doing sth in our holidays " and "schedulling our holidays "?
Feedback
1. I think a holiday is specifically when you go and stay somewhere for at least a night, and usually longer. So if you drive two hours to the beach, sunbathe all day and then come back, that's a trip but not a holiday.
But if you are staying overnight somewhere recreationally, then "trip" or "holiday" are both equally good.
2. I guess you could? It's probably more natural to use present perfect for all of them, or to simply say things like "And what about you?" to the other two.
3. They're both quite natural. I think you have the right idea - a holiday is the actual trip or the break as a whole, whereas "holidays" means something like "days that are for recreation".
So we have "the school holidays", meaning the summer period of days where children don't have to go to school. "What are you doing during the holidays?" "On our holidays we're going to Skegness." "We didn't do anything for our holidays :("
We went on holiday to Skegness. We're going to book a holiday. We spent our holidays in Skegness. We're going to book a trip for our holidays. I guess it's a very fuzzy distinction, you just have to be careful to use the right grammar, talking about a holiday as a single event and holidays as a period of time, but the meanings seem to overlap a lot.
It's probably safer to use "holiday" most of the time. Not necessarily more natural, but "holiday" is probably the more versatile word.
June 16, 2021
I'm not sure if I correctly understood "We didn't do anything for our holidays ". Does it mean "We didn't do anything in our holidays" or "We didn't get ready for our holidays"?
THANK YOU again for explaining "the hard stuff" to me🙂.
(By the way, have you already tried learning Polish? I bet it's less complicated. 😉
June 16, 2021
It means "we didn't do anything in our holidays". We just stayed at home and did nothing until it was time to go back to school/work. Although I do see why you might think it meant "get ready"!
I haven't, but I'm sure you're right. English is mad :)
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1. What are your holiday ideas for this summer? |
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2. Have you booked any trips/excursions/holidays? 2. Have you booked any These all work but "holidays" is the most natural here. "Excursions" sounds a bit funny, "trips" could mean boring things like a trip to another city for work.
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3. Did you do it through a travel agent's or by yourself through sites offering tickets and hotel rooms? 3. Did you do it through a travel agent The possessive works here but I wouldn't use it.
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4. I wish you /What I wish you is a safe holiday but brimming with adventures. 4. I wish you "What I wish you" could work but it's unusual. It's emphasising how you wish *this*, when you might have wished something else. I could wish you a pleasant trip, but that's boring; what I wish you is a holiday brimming with adventures.
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Enjoy your freedom from work "to the fullest". Enjoy your freedom from work We're pretty casual about using expressions like this without putting them in quotes :)
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1.Can I use book "your holidays" meaning "your trips"? 2. |
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When I ask 3 persons in turn about their summer break plans, is it correct to use Present Perfect for the first listener: "Have you booked a tour?" |
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and then Past Simple for the second and third listeners respectively: "Did you book a tour? |
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3. When I search the Internet for the uses of the plural word "holidays" with reference to SUMMER HOLIDAYS , I can’t find them - |
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Is it then more natural to talk about "going somewhere on holiday" , "on our holiday" (whole summer break), "on a holiday" / "for a holiday" (one summer outing/trip), and thus "planning our holiday", and "doing sth during our holiday" than |
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"going on our/ for our holidays", "doing sth in our holidays " and "shedulling our holidays "? "going on our/ for our holidays", "doing sth in our holidays " and "schedul |
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