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Tinanam0102 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

during or on

Hi teachers,

Would you block out an hour sometime on a holiday coming next month?

Thanks
  

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Please clarify what you mean by 'a holiday'. Is there more than one holiday next month? Clive

— Clive

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  • Is there more than one holiday next month?
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Please clarify what you mean by 'a holiday'.
Is there more than one holiday next month?

Clive
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Hi Clive,

Just one of the holidays, one day. The person would like to meet with another person for an hour about the business.
Can you block out an hour on a holiday next week?
Can you block out an hour during a holiday next week?

Thanks
TN
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Before I answer your question, please clarify your meaning more..
II wonder what you mean by 'a holiday'.
eg a special day, like Thanksgiving?
Or a personal vacation period?
Or a weekend?

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Hi Clive,

It's a public holiday in our country. It's like Thanksgiving in the US. People do not go to work on holidays. I get the sentence idea from a structure: block out a few hours a day to do exercise. I wonder if you could use the same structure to write something like that but my problem is I don't know if 'on a holiday' is the right collocation or 'in a holiday' or maybe 'duri
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Say 'the holiday' if everyone knows about it.

'On' suggests the holiday is only one day.
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