I Will Be Out of the Office for the Week of December 27, With Limited Access to E-mail._ _ PhraseMix

“I will be out of the office for the week of December27, with limited access to e-mail.”

Y ou're going on vacation. Y ou want to leave a message on y our e-mail that lets people know that

y ou're not at work. Y ou write this in y our out-of-office message.

I will be out of the office for the week of Decem ber 27, with lim ited access to

e-m ail.

I will be out of the officeThis is the standard expression to write in an e-mail "out-

of-office" message:

I will be out of the office.

Y ou don't usually use "will" to talk about y our future

actions, but in more formal English y ou can. In more

casual situations it's more common to use "going to". For

example, if y ou tell a coworker about y our vacation, a

good way to explain it is:

I'm going to be out of the office next week.

the week of (date)When y ou need to refer to a specific week, y ou can pick a

day that falls during that week, and call it "the week of

(that date)":

I think we're coming the week of June 4th.

Usually y ou use the first day of the week (Monday ) as the

date in this expression. But y ou can also use other day s

of the week. If y ou only remember one date during that

week, y ou can use that date, whether it's the first day of

the week or not.

limited access to (something)When something is "limited", it means that y ou can't get a

lot of it. For example:

Money is limited these days.

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This means that y ou don't have much money .

"Limited access to ___" means that y ou aren't able to see

or use something very much:

The money is going to help families who have

limited access to safe drinking water and medical

care.

At my work, we only have limited access to the

Internet. They block a lot of sites that don't have a

clear business purpose.