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muscle5572
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 Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:34 am Post subject: over, on |
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1. What did you do over the holiday?
2. What did you do on the holiday?
What's different between the sentence 1 and the sentence 2 ? |
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jumbonaut
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:06 am Post subject: |
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These two sentences would probably generate the same response, however I feel that the second sentence is implying that the person went somewhere for his/her holiday. He was "on" a holiday, as you would be "on" a vacation or "on" a trip.
If it was just a week away from work, you would most likely refer to events during that week as happening "over the break" or "over the holiday" or "over vacation."
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