“In the year ’96” and “in ’96” are both grammatically correct. I notice in all of your responses above there is a space between the time and the a.m., except in your response to Carlos on September 8, 2012.Your advice to the newsletter writer to be consistent throughout a document was right on. (Although in today's spoken German, this rule is often ignored.) Notice that each German subordinate clause (in bold type) is set off by a comma. There should also be a comma after the year.I am trying to write the artist’s name, title of their artwork, date of artwork, and city of artwork in one sentence.

If you have numbers in different categories, use numerals for one category and spell out the other.”Since “24” refers to hours and “7” refers to days, “24 hours per day, seven days per week” is correct. Could you please clarify the correct way to write the dates? : recently, now, then, yesterday) Adverbs of time are usually put at the end of the sentence.

For example, “I would like you to attend our banquet April 22nd”. Also, theI was wondering how you would write a list of times.

There are times when knowing the correct grammar and usage of English is correct, useful and appropriate. Is this correctWe recommend writing May 6, 13, and 20, 2017.

And many people are just lazy and would rather die than look up a word in a dictionary or even to Google something to learn how a word is spelled.You are correct about the proper way to write the date. However, one I ran across stated that if different characters are saying time, I should vary the method to fit the particular character. Would you write:Mr. Stone stated that he was on the second floor NEAR 0145 hours.Mr. In example, would it be:“…job search for the period October 25, 2013 through November 2, 2013,”It feels like the putting the comma after the year of the first date breaks of the time period instead of spanning the time. As you can see above, a German subordinate clause always starts with a subordinating conjunction and ends with the conjugated verb.

I have more problems with the sell by dates on food products when I don’t know if they have put the month or the date first.The Writing Dates and Times blog currently has 420 comments—more comments than any of our other blogs. And I know their writing style generally is very good. Or “The meeting was held “from August 1 to August 12”?It is difficult for us to imagine a single meeting that lasted for twelve days. Legal documents have their own set of rules. Is that correct or should I put the day after the month?An apostrophe after the decade number, as in 80’s, is prevalent but not correct. Or use the numerals? In promotional materials such as posters and advertisements, it’s a matter of style. How about “The war took place during 2001-2003.” Or, the data was gathered during 2001-2003.”Is this “On Monday, March 3, we will ……”?

America’s two most influential style and usage guides have different approaches: I create certificates for courses and was wondering the correct way to write a date, such as “April 26 and May 3, 2017.” My supervisor says it should read, April 26, and May 3, 2017. The s indicates plurality, and there is no grammatical justification for placing an apostrophe between a noun and its plural s. We don’t write “eightie’s” so why would we write 80’s? Thanks!We recommend adding the comma to separate the date from the time. There’s a section that explores in seemingly infinite detail the proper usage for hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes; as well as the difference between a minus sign and a hyphen.

:Now my daughter has been learning English (also as a foreign language in German high school) and her teacher insists that it’s incorrect to abbreviate the names of the “long” months.Could you please tell me it the above date formats are correct.At 9 minutes and 10 seconds past 8 am on the 11th of December 2013, possibly be written as 08;09;10;11;12;13 in USA this would have to be 9 minutes and 10 seconds past 8 am on the 12th of November 2013 to be the sameWe think you are referring to what is known as a sequential day.

Sometimes with a unique font it looks very awkward.Also she likes to change my dates to “th” and “st” and “rd” and I think it creates clutter. Although this format does have some advantages, we prefer spelling the date out in formal writing.Would it be correct to say: “You will receive the package on February the 21st?” Thank you!We recommend writing either “You will receive the package on February 21,” or “You will receive the package on the 21st of February.”Is it true that you shouldn’t write February 19th but onlyWhen a day is mentioned without the month or year, the number is usually spelled out in ordinal form.Other style guides say that it is also acceptable to write “the 19th of February” or “the 19th of February, 2014.” Writing “February 19th” or “February 19th, 2014,” is not recommended in American English.I talked with some colleagues that are from the UK. Subordinate clauses, those parts of a sentence that cannot stand alone and are dependent on another part of the sentence, introduce more complicated word order rules. It eliminates the AM / PM confusion. Adding the abbreviation When saying such a sentace … “At 19:51 on 24th September 2012”, should you or can you use the word hrs after the time?Somebody has peer reviewed a report that I have written and have made a suggestion for me to add this… although I think it is because he used to use it in the forces!I asked the question above about time zones (11/4/11). For instance:From 20th – 30th March 2018 a Fair Book took place in a Venetian community centre from 8:00 pm to 17:00 am.Yes, it is possible.