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Do you have Sports Day in your school? "Do you have Sports Day in your school?"
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
- 20-Apr-2011, 07:15 #2
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Teacher Re: Do you have Sports Day in your school? I'd say a Sports Day, but others may see it differently and I wouldn't say it's wrong without the article.
- 20-Apr-2011, 12:34 #3
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Teacher Re: Do you have Sports Day in your school? 
I'd say 'a sports day' in a question, because the fact that I'm asking implies that I don't have a particular one in mind. But if the context made it clear which day I meant, I'd use no 'a' (and mental capitals 
): 'We're allowed to go straight home after Sports Day, without going back to school''.
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