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安德烈 (Andrea)
Community TutorSeptember the 3rd?
Hi,
if you are writing an email,. what would be the format of the above date, for instance, that you would use?
September the 3rd
3rd of September
3 September
3 of September
3 Sep
or others still? please give me a distinction, if for you there is any, between writing a business email or texting one of your friends, thank you very much.
Sep 11, 2019 6:35 AM
Answers · 3
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It does also depend on the full sentence in which they are being used sometimes but the two below are the most natural to use:
+ The meeting is on "September the 3rd"
+ The meeting is on "THE 3rd of September" --> please note you need to add "the" to make it natural.
The other ones you wrote (3 September / 3 of September / 3 Sep) are not natural here or ever.
Here are a couple of other possible alternative, again depending on context though:
+ The meeting is on "September 3"
+ The meeting is on "03/09/19" --> Global date format
+ The meeting is on "09/03/19" --> American date format
September 11, 2019
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安德烈 (Andrea)
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