I get/receive gifts once a year.

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dwni1

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I want to ask if it is okay to use an adverbial of time with get and receive.
For instance, I want to describe how often I receive gifts.
Can I say

1 I get/ receive gifts once a year.
2 I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend once a year.
I get/receive gifts for Christmas once a year.
I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend for Christmas once a year.
 
I want to ask if it is okay to use an adverbial of time with get and receive.
Yes, it is.
1 I get/ receive gifts once a year.
2 I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend once a year.
I prefer "receive" in those.
I get/receive gifts for Christmas once a year.
I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend for Christmas once a year.
Those are not good sentences. Christmas occurs only once a year!
 
I want to ask if it is okay to use an adverbial of time with "get" and "receive". For instance, I want to describe express how often I receive gifts.
Can I say the following?

1. I get/receive gifts once a year.
2. I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend once a year.
3. I get/receive gifts for Christmas once a year.
4. I get/receive gifts from my girlfriend for Christmas once a year.
Note my corrections above.

Make sure you mark out the words you're specifically asking about. As you can see, I've put both in quotation marks in the first sentence.
If you open with "Can I say ...", you need to find a way to end it with a question mark. I've solved that problem above.
I don't know why you numbered 1 and 2 but failed to number the other two.
 
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