LoginExpressing Dates For beginners
Learning how to say the dates correctly helps you improve in the English language. Here, we'll tell you all about it.
How Do We Express Dates?
Expressing dates involves writing the month, day, and year to refer to a specific day on the calendar.
How to Ask About Dates?
To ask about the date, the following questions can be used. The answers to these questions start with “It is…”.
- What day is it? + It is December 24th.
- What month is it? + It is August.
- What year is it? + It’s 2023.
Names of the Days
A week has 7 days. The following list gives the names of weekdays:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Names of Months
A year has 12 months. Each month has 4 weeks and 29 to 31 days. Take a look at the list below:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
How to Write the Dates
Now, to read the date, start with the first number which is the day. Then, move on to the month, and then the year.
In order to read the date, use ordinal numbers. Look at the list below to learn some of them:
1 → First
2 → Second
3 → Third
4 → Fourth
5 → Fifth
5/9/2025 → the fifth of November
1/3/1998 → the first of March
3/12/2007 → the third of December
Prepositions
When talking about dates, different prepositions are used. 'In' is used when talking about the year and the month, and 'on' is used when talking about the day. Look:
I'm going to Italy in June.
I may visit her on Sunday.
They were in France in 1998.
Warning!
Note that the names of days and months are proper nouns and their first letter is always in uppercase.
Quiz:
What is the correct way to answer the question: "What day is it?"
It is Monday.
It is January.
It is 2023.
It is 5 o'clock.
Sort the days of the week in the correct order.
Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence according to order of the months.
The month after March is
.
The month before July is
.
The first month of the year is
.
The month after October is
.
The last month of the year is
.
Sort the words to form a correct sentence.
Which sentence uses the correct preposition for expressing dates?
She was born in April 10th.
The event will be on March 15th.
We met in Friday.
They left on 2020.
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