Timeline for Preposition selection for "Are you doing anything special ..... New Year?"
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 0:12 | comment | added | alephzero | @Catija "at New Year" (not "at New Year's") would be valid in British English, though "What are you doing on New Year's Eve" would be more usual, except in Scotland, where the New Year celebrations have their own name: "What are you doing at Hogmanay". | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 20:03 | answer | added | Catija | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | AlexD | @Catija, It is question posted in English learning public group in the Russian social network with few thousands subscribers. I really want to clarify this to all subscribers. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 20:00 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:57 | comment | added | Catija | So, the problem is that, if that's the exact text of the test question, you need to find a different book/teacher/whatever. None of those options are valid options. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | AlexD | @Catija, it doesn't specify what country it is geared for. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Andrew | @Catija it's close but here there is the added question of "on New Year's Eve" vs. "in the New Year". | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:48 | comment | added | Catija | Possible duplicate? ell.stackexchange.com/questions/109946/… | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:40 | comment | added | Catija | What country is this geared for (or which are you interested in)? My (poor) understanding is that there is a difference between AmE and BrE differ in this case... for example, as an AmE speaker, I might say "What are you doing for New Year's" while (I believe) a BrE speaker might say "What are you doing at New Year's?". | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 19:29 | history | asked | AlexD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |