to be/go/come etc S.Wh. ON + 0 + holiday/ etc?
Can you remember your first year of English?If you did File 1 with us , the first unit has a short listening exercise.
Taxi Driver: asks 2 Americans : Are you here on business?*
They say they're in England on holiday.
*On business just means you have something other than pleasure to do in that place: an academic enrollment, booking cinema seats. The two are often opposed:
Are you here "for pleasure" or "on business"?
Historical note.
Even 40 years ago, befor so much terrorism, one difference between Spain and England was more obvious: IN ENGLAND THRE IS NO HISTORICAL RIGHT TO BE ANYWHERE PUBLIC FOR NO REASON: this was actually a criminal offence: loitering, which describes a Spanish ideal: just being on the streets, full stop! Anyone had a right to ask what you were doing there! Any authority , especially a policeman , could ask you to move along! Many Spaniards visiting England objected. So a limited number of reasons for being anywhere FIT this mentality.
Well, there are a few more than Holiday and Business : on pilgrimage,
on retreat
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on safari
(" on tour" is limited to people whose work will involve travel. The Rolling Stones are
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in Asia.)
(the military - and metaphorical extensions, especially police-can be
on sentrygo
on duty
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, even on mission, but typically on a mission)
for others, you generally need an article: on a hike, on a tour, etc
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