Using “on” for specific dates

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here

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we're talking about the day or you could

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say when's the meeting with Google it's

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on the 14th here's a little extra tip

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though unlike in which we're going to

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talk about in just a second the word on

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for the day is completely optional let's

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go back to our first examples with this

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and let's see what it looks like if we

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take out the word on my birthday is

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Saturday my birthday is the 4th this is

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perfectly fine so you've got two options

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my birthday is on Saturday or my

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birthday is Saturday when's the meeting

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with Google it's Friday the 14th it's on

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Friday the 14th or without the word on

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it's Friday the 14th both of these

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options are perfectly fine let's go on

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to the second preposition that we use to

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talk about dates and that is in we use

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in to talk about longer periods of time

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months or years my birthday is in

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September this is true the month of

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September my birthday is in September or

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we could say the year my birthday is in

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1987 we have a month and a year and

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we're using in