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Language Arts - Punctuation - Commas in Addresses and Dates
Commas
When you write the date, you will need to use a comma. Here are a few
examples:
June 6, 1999 January 22, 2004
May 17, 1808 February 16, 2010
You may sometimes see the date specified in the following ways:
September 6, 2000
09-06-00
09/06/00
Sep 6, 2000
There are even a few other ways to specify the date, but the ones shown
above are the most common ways to specify the date in the United States. In
order to easily translate between the all number way of showing the date and
the full name way, you need to know the numbers of the months.
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
Often you'll see the date at the beginning of a letter or note. Here's an
example of a short note with the date at the top.
11/23/03
Dear Jane,
I hope to see you in Las Vegas, Nevada, next week.
We plan to have a great time and we'll try not to
spend too much money on the trip.
See you there,
Raymond
You should be aware that in some countries the number version of the date is
written with the day before the month. For instance, in the USA, 03/09/2015
stands for March 9, 2015. In many other countries this same sequence of
numbers would stand for the third day of the ninth month or September 3,
2015. This discrepancy in the way that dates are represented can sometimes
be confusing!
Remember that there should always be a single space following a comma.
Also, remember that the names of the months of the year should be
capitalized. In the exercise on the next page you will be asked to convert
dates from an all number format (09/21/2006) to a format using the word name
for the month (September 21, 2006).
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