to say beforehand

User_garyOur boss warned us to say beforehand if we want to off from work.

Is this sentence correct?

Please help me.

Our boss warned us to tell him/her beforehand if we want to take off from work.

"... to tell him beforehand if we want to go off from work"

Pieanne"... to tell him beforehand if we want to go off from work"

Any meaning of "go off" of the dictionary is not related to work. So I think "go off" is wrong here, but "took off" is correct.

I know I may be wrong. But please Pieanne, would you justify your point that go off is correct?

My mistake, UG... My brain had read "get off" instead of "go off". So you're right, it's not correct.

Hi gyys,

Our boss warned us to say beforehand if we want to off from work.

. . . 'take off from work' sounds wrong to me.

I'd say Our boss warned us to tell him beforehand if we want to take time off. ('Work' is understood here, because you are talking about your boss)

take a day off

CliveHi gyys,

Our boss warned us to say beforehand if we want to off from work.

. . . 'take off from work' sounds wrong to me.

I'd say Our boss warned us to tell him beforehand if we want to take time off. ('Work' is understood here, because you are talking about your boss)

Hi Philip,

Hmmmm. I would never say Our boss warned us to tell him/her beforehand if we want to take off from work under any circumstances. 'Take off from work' just sounds wrong to me, unless you mean it in the sense of 'I took off (straight) from work on my trip because I didn't have time to go home'.

If we were dealing with several days, I

Thank you Clive and Phillip very much.

I have seen this meaning of "took off" in the Cambridge dictionary.

take sth off (NOT WORK) phrasal verb [M]
to spend time away from your work:
He took off two weeks in September.

Hi,

He took off two weeks in September.

Yes, that's fine. Or you could say He took two weeks off in September.

What I'm saying is that you can't say He took off in September.

Best wishes, Clive