Vacations

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Hello,Could you kindly help me with these doubts I have?1) Someone wrote an e-mail and within the subject he wrote: VACATIONS. He says that he is going on holiday to Miami for 3 weeks. I found that vacation is mainly uncontable. Should I correct the subject and leave it VACATION?2) Someone wrote an e-mail to a friend saying where she is going her next holidays. At the end, she wrote "I was forgetting to ask you if you want to go with us? Is it correct? I would have corrected "come wih us".3) Someone wrote "Answer me". I found that this is correct but why is it that it sound wrong to me????Thank you very much!

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

SopranoShould I correct the subject and leave it VACATION?

1) You can correct it to VACATION. But you can't leave it VACATION. You can only leave it VACATIONS or change it to VACATION.

2) I forgot to ask you if you want to go (or come) with us. Either go or come is OK, but was forgetting should be forgot.

3) Answer me is correct, but Please answer meis more polite. I don't know why it sounds wrong to you.

CJ

Futurist · Answer

'Vacation' is a count noun; its plural form 'vacations' is quite common. However, if the person you talk about is only going on the one holiday to Miami, then the title of their e-mail should probably just be 'Vacation'. Even if they were going on a tour of many places, you would typically only refer to their whole trip as a single vacation. However, if they came back to work and then went on another trip later that year, you would say that they had been on two vacations that year.

Both 'go with us' and 'come with us' are commonly used in this context. If you think about, your friends are going somewhere, and, if you were to accept their invitation, you'd be going there too - with them.

"Answer me." is perfectly good English, but it probably sounds odd to you because it is a command. One wouldn't usually use such a sentence except from a position of high status (and then only in certain circumstances), e.g. a parent or teacher to a child, an officer to a soldier, a policeman to a suspect being interrogated, a very angry employer to their employee. Among one's peers, it's politer (and therefore much more common) for one to say something like "Do you have an answer for me?" or "What's your answer?"

Soprano · Answer

Great anwers! Thank you for your time!!!!!

I completely agree with you, "answer me " might sound odd to me because it sounds like a command.

Thank you again!!!

Soprano · Answer

Thank you CalifJim!!!

I did not understand what you said about "leave it vacations or vacation".

I think I was not clear with that part of my question. I meant if I had to correct Vacations and write Vacation, or just leave it like that.

Anyway, someone else answered to me and know I understand.

Thank you for your answers and time!!! I will change "forgetting" into "forgot"

Regards,

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