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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 277. The title of today's lesson is ' Use

  • the article the with particular dates or periods of time.' Yeah. I've done a number

  • of videos in the past talking about like when you should use the article 'the' and

  • when you should not use the article 'the. ' Because there's really many, many rules

  • about them. I haven't done a one in a while, but here's a new one, telling you

  • some other times when you should be using the article 'the.' So you should use

  • the article 'the' again with dates, particular dates or particular time

  • periods or periods of time. So let's look at the first example. They didn't start

  • manufacturing cars until the beginning of the 20th century. So the beginning of

  • the 20th century is a time period. So you definitely use a 'the.' It would be

  • incorrect if a student simply read it as, they didn't start manufacturing cars

  • until beginning of the 20th century. If you omitted the, 'the' here , it would

  • definitely be wrong. You have, you must say the beginning of the 20th century . It

  • is a particular time period. All right. Let's look at number two.

  • The National Day in Taiwan is celebrated on the 10th of October.

  • Well that is a specific date. So you say the 10th of October. Again if you

  • read it and said you know the National Day in Taiwan is celebrated on 10th of

  • October that would be wrong. You must say the 10th of October. Okay, Let's continue.

  • Number 3. I like the music from the 1980s the most. So any time we say those like

  • decades, the 1960s, the 1990s the 1970s or in this case the 1980s. Always

  • use a 'the' with it. Okay. Good. Let's look at number four. The Victorian era

  • All right. That's another time period. So well here, here's where we're using ' the. '

  • So we say the Victorian era was during the time when Queen Victoria ruled

  • England. Okay. Good. Let's look at number five. Disco became

  • popular during the 70s. Well just like we say the 1980's , he 1990s, if we just use

  • like the word you know, like the 60s the 70s the 80s. That is a time period too. So

  • you use a 'the' with it Again it would be incorrect if you simply said Disco

  • became popular during 70s. No. You could not. You have to say the 70s. Okay and

  • let's look at number six here. His son was born on the 5th of June.

  • All right. Well again this is a specific date. So you must say the 5th of June. So the

  • whatever date it is of the month. Again if you would if you were to say his son

  • was born on 5th of June. No that would be wrong. If to say the 5th of June. Okay. Again,

  • I hope it's clear. I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 277. The title of today's lesson is ' Use

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