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Can someone help me? > I usually take a Thursday and Saturday off from work >I have Thursdays and Saturdays off work Are these sentences correct? What would natives say when you want to say something like this?
I think the second one implies you never work thursdays and saturdays while the first one is like "sometimes I don't work on thursday/saturday"
Don't take me seriously until a native confirms my theory, though.
Zachary Kelly
You shouldn't use "a" ahead of the days. It suggests that you are only taking the day off once, which is not what is meant (and conflicts with the "usually"). You may pluralise the days, because you are talking about multiple weeks; or you may keep them singular, because you are talking about the days in abstract.
I would use "of" rather than "from". A Google query with quotation marks around the phrases "day off [of/from] school" and "day off [of/from] work" yield slightly more hits for "of" in both pairs. You could also just drop the preposition (as you have done in your second example).
There are plenty of things with which you could replace "usually", too. You don't necessarily need any indicator of frequency, of course.
Amending your examples: >I [usually] take Thursday[s] and Saturday[s] off [of/from] work.
>I have Thursdays and Saturdays off [of/from] work.
Personally, I would probably say: >I don't work [on] Thursday[s] or Saturday[s].
>I have Thursdays and Saturdays off.
Logan Hill
The former implies that unless there is some special reason, he never works on those days.
The latter implies that he never works on those days, but we might assume that this would change if there were some special reason.
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