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Dates and years

Dates

The day of the month is always an ORDINAL number. 
They day can go BEFORE or AFTER the month. If it goes after the month, a comma separates it from the year.

WE WRITE                  WE SAY
April 1st                       April the first 
1st Arpil                       the first of April
February 12th             February the twelfth
12th February             the twelfth of February

Years

WE WRITE                WE SAY
1066                           ten sixty-six
1999                           nineteen ninety-nine
2000                           the year two thousand
2009                           two thousand and nine
2014                           two thousand and fourteen
'60s                             the sixties




 

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Time prepositions: in, on, at

IN Months, seasons, years, centuries	ON Days and dates	AT Hours of the clock, points in time
in June in spring in 1890 / in the sixties in the past century in the future	on Monday on Sundays on November the 5th on his birthday on his wedding on New Year’s Eve	at 2 o’clock at noon / night at the moment at the end of the month

Expresssions:

In: in the afternoon (s); in the evening (s); in the morging (s) 
On: on Monday evening; on weekends
At: at night; at Easter; at the same time

If you use LAST, NEXT, EVERY or THIS DON'T USE "on", "in" or "at"

I was happy last Monday (in last Mnday)
I'm planning to go on holiday next Tuesday (on next Tuesday)
I eat yoghourts every Christmas (not at every Christmas)
I will take a walk this evening (not in this evenig)

Exercises

Prepositions of time 1 

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Ordinal numbers

Table of Ordinal Numbers

Ordinal Numbers from 1 through 1,000,000

1

st

first

11

th

eleventh

21

st

twenty-first

31

st

thirty-first

2

nd

second

12

th

twelfth

22

nd

twenty-second

40

th

fortieth

3

rd

third

13

th

thirteenth

23

rd

twenty-third

50

th

fiftieth

4

th

fourth

14

th

fourteenth

24

th

twenty-fourth

60

th

sixtieth

5

th

fifth

15

th

fifteenth

25

th

twenty-fifth

70

th

seventieth

6

th

sixth

16

th

sixteenth

26

th

twenty-sixth

80

th

eightieth

7

th

seventh

17

th

seventeenth

27

th

twenty-seventh

90

th

ninetieth

8

th

eighth

18

th

eighteenth

28

th

twenty-eighth

100

th

one hundredth

9

th

ninth

19

th

nineteenth

29

th

twenty-ninth

1,000

th

one thousandth

10

th

tenth

20

th

twentieth

30

th

thirtieth

1,000,000

th

one millionth

Spelling of Ordinal Numbers

Just add th to the cardinal number:

• four - fourth
• eleven - eleventh

Exceptions:

• one - first
• two - second
• three - third
• five - fifth
• eight - eighth
• nine - ninth
• twelve - twelfth

In compound ordinal numbers, note that only the last figure is written as an ordinal number:

• 421st = four hundred and twenty-first
• 5,111th = five thousand, one hundred and eleventh

Figures

When expressed as figures, the last two letters of the written word are added to the ordinal number:

• first = 1st
• second = 2nd
• third = 3rd
• fourth = 4th
• twenty-sixth = 26th
• hundred and first = 101st

Titles

In names for kings and queens, ordinal numbers are written in Roman numbers. In spoken English, the definite article is used before the ordinal number:

• Charles II - Charles the Second
• Edward VI - Edward the Sixth
• Henry VIII - Henry the Eighth 

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Can, could and be able to

"Can", "Could" and "be able to" are used to express ability 
"Can't", "Couldn't" and "not be able to" are used to express inability.

Use of can/can't: FOR THE PRESENT.

I can swim, play the violin and ride a bike.
I can't speak Catalan. I don't know a word in Catalan.

Use of could/couldn't: FOR THE PAST

I could sing very well when I was a child.
I couldn't understand Catalan before I took a course.

Use of BE ABLE TO: FOR ALL VERB TENSES.

"Be able to" in the present or past is more FORMAL than "can" or "could"
Just use the correct form for each verb tense:

I'm able to climb that mountain.
He wasn't able to ride a bike when he was a child.
Will he be able to go to Catalonia next year?
I like being able to study what I like.

EXERCISES

 Can or could: grammar + exercise

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Present or past tense

PRESENT TENSE. 

The present tense is used to talk about:

• something that is true in the present:

I’m nineteen years old.
He lives in London.
I’m a student.

• something that happens again and again in the present:

I play football every weekend.

We use words like sometimes, often. always, and never (adverbs of frequency) with the present tense:

I sometimes go to the cinema.
She never plays football.

• something that is always true:

The adult human body contains 206 bones.
Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second.

• something that is fixed in the future.

The school term starts next week.
The train leaves at 1945 this evening.
We fly to Paris next week

PAST TENSE. 

The past tense is used to talk about:

• something that happened once in the past:

I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.

• something that happened again and again in the past:

When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.

• something that was true for some time in the past:

I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.

• we often use phrases with ago with the past tense:

I met my wife a long time ago.

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Tenses overview

 

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