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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Which expression of date?

I'm not a native English speaker.

Which of the following phrases are correct and why? (Our English teacher only approves some of them, I'm not sure which ones.) I have seen all of them used.

  • January 1st

  • January 1

  • January the 1st

  • 1st January

  • 1 January

  • 1st of January
  

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Hi, If you are writing the date in a formal sentence, you'd usually write the month in full, otherwise it's often abbreviated. In such a sentence, I'd write 'January the first', or 'the first of January'. At the top of a letter, I'd write '1st.

— Clive

  • Hi, If you are writing the date in a formal sentence, you'd usually write the month in full, otherwise it's often abbreviated.
  • In such a sentence, I'd write 'January the first', or 'the first of January'.
  • At the top of a letter, I'd write '1st.
  • Jan' or 'Jan.
  • ' Best wishes, Clive PS Date numbers should be written as ordinal numbers in a sentence, although often this is not done at, for example, the top of a letter.
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Hi,

If you are writing the date in a formal sentence, you'd usually write the month in full, otherwise it's often abbreviated. In such a sentence, I'd write 'January the first', or 'the first of January'.

At the top of a letter, I'd write '1st. Jan' or 'Jan. 1st.'

Best wishes, Clive

PS Date numbers should be written as ordinal numbers in a sentence, although of
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