Dates
What’s the date today? 1. How to say the date in English A. Order: month – day – year In most modern spoken English (especially American): - February 19, 2026 → “February nineteenth, twenty-six” More examples: - March 3, 1999 → “March third, nineteen ninety-nine” - July 21, 2010 → “July twenty-first, twenty ten” B. Saying the day in words We use ordinal numbers: 1st → first 2nd → second 3rd → third 4th → fourth 5th → fifth 21st → twenty-first 22nd → twenty-second 23rd → twenty-third 31st → thirty-first --- 2. Prepositions of time with dates A. On + specific date / day Use on with: - exact dates - days of the week Examples (with simple past and past form of be): - “The meeting was on February 19, 2024.” - “We met on Monday.” - “The party was on July 4th.” Form: - Affi...
