How do we write and pronounce dated in English? Let's find out today!
What's up, guys! Welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
And today we are going to learn how to write and say dates in English correctly.
So, first of all, let's talk about writing the dates. How do we write them?
The first method is very simple.
You write the date of the month first, use the numbers,
then you write the name of the month, starting with a capital letter,
and then you write the year.
For example, the twentieth of January nineteen ninety-three.
You see, first, we have twenty, then the name of the month - January,
and then the year, nineteen ninety-three.
The fourteenth of November twenty nineteen.
The number, then the month, starting with a capital letter, and the year. Very simple.
We can write the date using numbers only.
We can separate the date, the month and the year with dots for example,
or with slashes or with dashes.
There are three different ways here.
Sometimes the last two letters of the number as spoken can be written.
For example, the first of January, we write number one and then st,
because the word first ends with st.
Second - nd, third - rd, twenty-first - st, twenty-second - nd, twenty-third - rd, thirty-first - st.
As for the rest, we use th. Fifteenth of March.
Twenty-fifth of November, the ninth of April.
Today is the twenty-first of May.
Months can be shortened as follows.
January, February, March, April, May is not shortened, it is already short,
June, the same, it is not shortened, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Notice, that in American English the month goes before the number, the date, and the year.
So first you write the month, then you write the date of the month and then you write the year.
For example, Independence Day in the USA is on July the fourth.
And we should write this date in American English as 7/4/ for example 2018.
In British English we will write it as 4/7/2018. So be careful.
Now as for saying the day, how do we do it?
There three ways you can ask the question, first of all:
What date is it?
What's the date today?
What's today's date?
You can use either of these three questions.
Now how to answer? You can say for example:
It's the first of June.
You use the ordinal number first with the definite article the, notice that we use the, the first.
And before the month we use the preposition of - of June. It's the first of June.
It's the seventeenth of December.
It's the twenty-second of May.
You can also say: It's June the first.
You put the month before the day of the month.
It's June the first.
So no preposition of, but notice that the article is still there.
It's November the sixteenth.
Or you can omit the article sometimes, especially when you use just the phrase
there's nothing extra and you simply say: first of June.
Thirteenth of April.
Now how do we talk about the years?
We do it in the following way.
Well, actually there are two blocks of information.
First, let's talk about the years before two thousand.
Here usually we divide the year into two parts, in two halves.
And pronounce them as numbers.
Fourteen ninety-two, you see, I say fourteen, these are the first two numbers, fourteen.
And then the second two numbers - ninety-two.
Now if we have two zeros at the end of the year,
We can take the first two numbers, say them, seventeen and then use the word hundred.
So these two zeros just turn into the word hundred.
We say seventeen hundred.
Let's take the next year, here we can also say eighteen hundred and one.
So once again we use the word hundred.
Eighteen hundred and one.
We can also say eighteen o one.
So the last two numbers, we just... list them - o one.
Nineteen o seven. The same.
Nineteen hundred and seven, also possible.
Now after the year two thousand, we use the following pattern.
Two thousand is simply two thousand.
Then two thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and three, two thousand and nine and so on.
Or we can also say twenty o one, twenty o two, twenty o three, twenty o nine.
And finally, let's take two thousand and twelve.
We can simply say it just like that, you say how many thousands you have, two thousand and twelve.
Two thousand and twelve. Or you can also say twenty twelve.
Once again you divide the year into two parts, twenty twelve.
OK, that's it for today, I hope that now you have no problems
as to writing and saying dates in English
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