My off changes every week.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Okay so can I say use the following?

1) I have a day off on Monday.

2) I am off on Monday however I will work on Tuesday.

3) I have Monday off and will work on Tuesday.

4) I am off work on Monday.

5) I have been given a day off on Saturday.

6) I have been given two days off on the weekend.

We can't say "I have been given an off on Saturday". Am I correct?

You are, indeed, correct!

At least in the US. If off is a noun in India, you can use it there.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's common enough here in the mid-west US as well, although I'd drop the 'on' in both cases.

I learned to talk in Ohio and have listened to many thousands of midwesterners.

I don't recall off ever being a noun. (Except with prefixes: one-off, takeoff, playoff, tip-off, and so on.)

I won't say it can't happen in nature. I've just never witnessed it.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Both "day off" and "off day" can be used in the UK. The former is more common, in my opinion. Even though I agree that "off" isn't generally used as a noun, in one of my previous jobs, it was. I was part of the team that sorted out the work roster each week for 150 staff, working across some 25 different shifts, in an environment that was open 24/7. We would say things like "Don't forget Jane needs four shifts and three offs every week" and "Remember to give staff two offs before a week's leave".

Interesting. Then Indians might have gotten it from the Brits.

 

[tufguy]

You are, indeed, correct!

At least in the US. If off is a noun in India, you can use it there.

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[Skrej]

I learned to talk in Ohio and have listened to many thousands of midwesterners.

I don't recall off ever being a noun. (Except with prefixes: one-off, takeoff, playoff, tip-off, and so on.)

I won't say it can't happen in nature. I've just never witnessed it.

I never said it was used as a noun. I'm not sure where this noun business even came in. I don't parse it as 'have' an 'off' . To me you 'have off' whatever day. If anything, I'd call it a phrasal verb. It's just an alternative to 'get off'.

 

[emsr2d2]

It's probably my fault - as I said in my previous post, in a very specific context in my old job, we used to use "off" as a noun. Admittedly, it really meant "day off" but that's not the point. We still said, for example, "She needs four shifts and three offs next week".

 

[GoesStation]

I'm not sure where this noun business even came in.

Yankee corrected part of the OP with this (my emphasis):

If I had off on Monday last week then I will be off (or "have off")on Tuesday this week and Wednesday next week and so on.

I said it was wrong. It's not a noun there, but it's wrong.

 

[Yankee]

Yankee corrected part of the OP with this (my emphasis):
I said it was wrong. It's not a noun there, but it's wrong.

Are you referring to your "wrong" for this sentence?

If I had off on Monday last week then I will be off (or "have off")on Tuesday this week and Wednesday next week and so on.

 

[GoesStation]

Are you referring to your "wrong" for this sentence?

If I had off on Monday last week then I will be off (or "have off")on Tuesday this week and Wednesday next week and so on.

Yes.

 

[Yankee]

Yes.

Well, if you're referring to the "off" in "had off" I agree that it is not a noun, but I would consider it, i.e. "had off" an idiomatic expression that is frequently used and accepted in everyday AmE.

 

[SoothingDave]

I am somewhere sort of US east and sort of Midwest and the idea of someone having an "off" is not something I would say or have heard. You might have an "off day," or a "day off." "I'm off on Monday." All good.

But not "my off is Monday."

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . You might have an "off day," or a "day off." . . .
But not "my off is Monday."

Yup! See #21.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I never said it was used as a noun. I'm not sure where this noun business even came in. I don't parse it as 'have' an 'off' . To me you 'have off' whatever day. If anything, I'd call it a phrasal verb. It's just an alternative to 'get off'.

Oops! Sorry. Pronoun confusion. When you wrote "It's common enough here in the mid-west", I thought it was the use of off as a noun.