- What date is your birthday?
- What's the date today?
- The commonest way to write the day’s date
- Read the instructions
DATES
WRITING THE DATE
In Britain, the commonest way to write the day’s date is as follows. Note that the names of the months always begin with capital letters.
19 December 1973 2 May 1965 23 January 1998
The last two letters of the number word (st, nd, rd or th) are sometimes added. Some people write a comma before the year, but this is not very common.
23rd January, 1996 He was born on 23 January, 1998.
The date may be written entirely in figures.
23/04/05 23-04-2005 23.04.2005
NOTE: In America, People put the month first and they put a comma before the year.
March 30, 1995 June 13, 2897 September 6, 1992
This may sometimes cause some confusion.
6.4.1994 means “6 April 1994” in Britain and “June 4, 1994” in the USA.
READING THE DATE:
To ask about the dates, we can say for instance,
- What’s the date today?
- What date is your birthday?
30 March, 1993 March 30, 1995 2 November, 1975 17 January, 2005 | The thirtieth of March, nineteen ninety-three March the thirtieth, nineteen ninety-three The second of November, nineteen seventy-five The seventeenth of January, two thousand and five |
