How often or do you ever
I am wondering which would be the most proper answers for these questions:
How often do you go on holidays?
Do you ever go on holidays?
I am not sure about the use of: three times, twice, sometimes, always, never and so on in these contexts.
Thank you.
7 Answers
How often do you take a vacation?
Once or twice a year
I always take a vacation every summer.
I get days off for holidays but I don't take many long vacations.
I never take a vacation.
Sometimes I go on vacation when I have enough money to travel.
Do you ever go on vacation?
I don't usually go on vacation.
I don't ever go on vacation.
I never go on vacation.
Sometimes I go on vacation.
Once or twice a year I go on vacation.
I go on vacation three times a year.
I always go on vacation in the spring.
Hi Nila.
We don't say "properest", we say "most proper". And in the US it's very uncommon to hear the expression "go on holidays." We observe a holiday, or we celebrate it, or we get a day as a holiday from our employer. And we take vacations.
In my company we get 8 days per year as holidays: New Years Day, Martin Luther Kings birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day (and the day after) and Christmas.
We also get so many weeks of paid vacation, which we can "take* by submitting a form to schedule the time off.
Terms like once, twice, or three times would be rarely used in our discussion of the above. One could say I never get a vacation, or I sometimes do. Or I've gotten a vacation once in the last 3 years.
I hope this was a good start in answering your question. 
Nila, you've got some good answers with Goyo and Alba.
I'd like to mention that in England it is very common to say "I go on holiday once a year," which in the United States would be "I go on vacation once a year."
Concerning "holiday":
Typically the assumption is that the British are the conservators of the English language and the defenders against the American "colonials" who would change/corrupt/degrade the language. In this case we have the opposite tendency. The word "holiday" derives from "holy day". In other words, a day of religious significance for the Catholic Church (or, after Edward VIII, the Church of England). In America we have (slightly) extended the meaning to encompass any "official" holiday [religious or not] but one that applies to everyone).
Our British cousins, on the other hand (with complete disregard for the etymology of the word) have extended it to include any time off from work/school. It needn't any longer be officially recognized (much less, religious), nor need it pertain to more than a single person (I can have my holiday this week and you yours next week).
\The only reasonable conclusion from this example would be that American and British English have diverged. Neither can reasonably lay claim to being "purer" or more "authentic"; they are simply, different.
I say "vacation' makes sense too because it comes from the verb 'to vacate" which is another word for "to leave" and when one takes a vacation we usually leave our home (or if its a vacation from work, you'r leaving work)
You could say "I go on holiday/take a vacation three times(two times) a year.
Or "I never(always) go on holiday/ take a vacation
We tend not to use "going on holidays " you would hear ,I am going Overseas , or I am going to Queensland for a while, or if they have children it may be , where are you going for the school break, or school holidays, but rarely , going on holidays. there is a tendency now to use taking a vacation I suspect it will take off in a little while, I need a break so I am off to
