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13 Dec 2018
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English (UK)
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Is this sentence correct? The flights were held up because of volcano eruption.
Is this sentence correct? The flights were held up because of volcano eruption.
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- English (UK)
@Milli3 yeah that’s right
Or it could be
The flights were delayed because of of the volcano eruption.
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- Russian
@Serena_Dean I need the sentences with "hold up". Could you give me some more examples?
- English (UK)
@Milli3 if you want it to be saying held up then the sentence you wrote was correct there isn’t really another way to say that!
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- English (UK)
The flights were delayed because of the volcano eruption
- English (UK)
- English (US)
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"the flights were held up because of volcanic eruptions"
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