Using “in” for months and years

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and

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we're using in this is required notice

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notice warning warning this is 100%

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required in the sentence unlike the

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previous preposition on which was

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optional

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this is 100% necessary so make sure that

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when you're talking about longer periods

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of time my birthday is in September

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my birthday is in

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2007 that's a little bit too recent but

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maybe that's true for you well you need

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to use in that is required let's go on

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to talk about how we talk about years

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how can you say years well the most

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general way is to separate 1492 we're

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just having two numbers and putting them

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together 1492 or you might say 1812 you

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don't need to say 1812 just 1812 but

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something's a little bit different if

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we're talking about the first couple

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years of each century what if you want

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to talk about this date

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how can you pronounce that we would say

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1,700 1,700 what about the next year

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after that 1701 and then 17:02 17:03 we

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don't