Apr 1, 2010 02:25
14 yrs ago
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English term

IN/ON December 25???

Non-PRO English Other Linguistics Prepositions
I've always seen as standard ON being used for expressing dates made of month and day, then I started chancing upon cases with IN. Something colloquial, if generally accepted in speech, I should know about by now?
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Apr 1, 2010 04:01: Yasutomo Kanazawa changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

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Non-PRO (3): Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães, Ildiko Santana, Yasutomo Kanazawa

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+28
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on

:)

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Note added at 3 mins (2010-04-01 02:28:34 GMT)
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dates are always with "on" in English

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Note added at 8 mins (2010-04-01 02:33:44 GMT)
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Prepositions of Time: at, in, on
We use:

•at for a PRECISE TIME
•in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
•on for DAYS and DATES
Peer comment(s):

agree Monica Colangelo : Sure. Days and dates "ON"; "IN" is only for the name of the month, ie, no date is specified.
5 mins
agree Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
6 mins
agree lorenab23 : Yes. As Trixie says "IN" only for the month alone
7 mins
agree Selcuk Akyuz
18 mins
agree JaneTranslates : Exactly. IN December, IN 2009, but ON December 25. IN the afternoon, but AT three o'clock.
37 mins
agree yolanda Speece
1 hr
agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
1 hr
agree Stephanie Ezrol
1 hr
agree José J. Martínez : right ON!!!!
2 hrs
agree Piotr Czyżewski
2 hrs
agree Vanda Nissen
3 hrs
agree Jack Doughty
4 hrs
agree Tony M
4 hrs
agree gabiomelka
5 hrs
agree Carol Gullidge
6 hrs
agree Ildiko Santana
6 hrs
agree Rolf Keiser : goes without saying.
8 hrs
agree Suzan Hamer : Yes, definitely.
8 hrs
agree Oliver Lawrence : 3 BrowniZ for me too, please :)
9 hrs
agree Jenni Lukac (X)
10 hrs
agree Nicole Y. Adams, M.A.
10 hrs
agree eesegura : Those prepositions can be killers...!
14 hrs
agree Empty Whiskey Glass
16 hrs
agree George C.
16 hrs
agree Leny Vargas
17 hrs
agree BrettMN
1 day 13 hrs
agree Phong Le
2 days 6 hrs
agree Michał Szewczyk
3 days 13 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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