Nov 29, 2016 · If I want to express the date: 1/1/17 can I say "on January first"? For example: I'm going to meet him on January first. I know that I can say also: "the first of January", but my question is

The formats "1 January 2018" and "1st January 2018" are both widespread in Britain. Including a comma before the year is less common and most style guides recommend against it. It has the undesirable effect that if you start a sentence with "On 1st January, 2018", you'll probably end up also putting a comma after "2018", and whether you do or ...

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Jan 4, 2025 · Commented Jan 5 at 2:18 1 hi @Lerner Zhang, in my mother or [both] my parents (is infected with the flu) , bracketing commas shouldn't be skipped if or both my parents is intended to be parenthetical.

Commented Jan 1, 2024 at 22:47 5 @YosefBaskin That's not entirely true; not pretty and pink, but optimistically, positive - see Cambridge Dictionary definition "a happy or positive attitude that fails to notice negative things, leading to a view of life that is not realistic" MW & Collins have similar definitions and it even has its own ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Is there any difference. Yes, there is. Before I actually answer a little language history, bear with me: The subjunctive mood ("will"->"would") is something common in all Indo-European languages and goes back to two forms in Proto-Indo-European, the common ancestor of all of them: subjunctive and optative.

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Commented Jan 1, 2016 at 6:43 Did the original poster mean "Peninsular Malaysia" (the part of Malaysia that is on the Asian mainland, instead of in the Indonesian archipelago)? Or did the original poster mean the "Malay Peninsula" (which includes Peninsular Malaysia, along with parts of Burma and Thailand)?

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Commented Jan 1, 2018 at 18:33 I don't think it's an idiom, either. "Idiom" implies that the meaning of the entire phrase can't be built up from the meaning of the individual words.