TRANSCRIPT OF THE ABOVE VIDEO: 'English Writing Lesson: Writing Dates in English - How To Write And Say Dates in English Correctly'

Hi everyone, its Nicole here answering another one of your questions.

And today we're looking at how to write dates. Very good question. It's really difficult. Even for native speakers.

So, the order that we follow for writing dates, you could have day / month / year, for example 10th April 2001, or you could have month / day / year, for example, April 10th 2001. It doesn't really matter about the order there, as long as you've got the 10 and the April together, don't separate them.

But, the next question is actually do you write the th? Do you write the of? Do you write the article? That's such a good question. Look, let's break it down. There are lots of answers.

Number one, you could just write the number and the month, 10 April. However, when someone sees it and reads it, they will write they will say the 10th of April even though it just says 10 April.

You could also write 10th April, 10th April, same situation when someone reads it out loud, they will say the 10th of April even though the the and the of isn't there.

You could also write April 10. And again, they would write, um they would say the 10th of April, or you could write April 10th th there, again, they would say the 10th of April, but promise me, promise me, promise me that you never write the article the, and you never write the preposition of, when you are writing a date, never write the 10th of April, take away the, take away of, you are only going to write the number, the day, and the month, you are never going to write the preposition or the article - no grammar, ok - the grammar comes when you read it out, when you talk it.

So the 10th of April, don't write the, don't write of, just write 10th April, or 10 April, or April 10th, or April 10. That's all correct, but it's wrong with the article and the preposition. I hope that makes sense.

So go practise writing today's date, and yesterday's date, and tomorrow's date, go and write your birthday, Christmas, whatever - practise writing dates. I hope that those little tips really really helped. Bye.