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DAYS, DATES AND TIME Days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Months of the year are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December Some well-known days , which are always on the same dates each year : New Year's Day (1st January), Valentine's Day (14th February), Hallowe'en (31st October), Bonfire Night (5th November), Christmas Eve (24th December), Christmas Day (25th December), Boxing Day (26th December), New Year's Eve (31st December) Other days or periods which change each year : Ramadan , Good Friday , Easter Day Dates are written like this: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th etc You can write: 14th May 2003 or May 14th, 2003 or 14.5.03 or 14/5/03 but you say: the fourteenth of May two thousand and three or: May the fourteenth two thousand and three.     Exercise 1: Answer these questions about Days, w...

Reported speech | examples and exercises When direct speech is changed into reported speech , with a reporting verb in the past , the verb tense , the pronouns and the time-phrase may all have to be changed to indicate the time shift to the past : • 'We'll be getting married this year,' he said, (direct speech) • He says (that) they'll be getting married this year. (reported speech with a present reporting verb) • He said (that) they would be getting married that year. (reported speech with a past reporting verb) It is usually better style to use more precise reporting verbs than say or tell when turning (usually informal ) direct statements into (usually more formal) reported ones. Examples are: advise, apologise, congratulate, promise, remind. The modals should, would, could, ought and might do not change tense in reported speech, and neither do the second and third conditionals. With a reported second or third conditional, that i...