Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “Say When” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Dates & Seasons quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
'Say when' tests your vocabulary with days, weeks, dates and seasons.
Whenever you are making plans with people, you will need to discuss times and dates and seasons, and you will need to be able to do this clearly and accurately to avoid confusion.
[readmore]]It can be quite surprising how differently some languages express the regular pattern of hours, days and months... so make sure that if your language does things differently, you know how to understand (and be understood by) English-speakers!
If you are arranging to go to a party where there may be drinks - and someone is going to pour (for instance) milk into your coffee, or more beer into your glass, or perhaps put some sauce on the side of your plate at a meal - they may ask you to 'Say when!' (Meaning, say 'when' you have as much as you want or need.)
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We only need two capital letters here: no more, and no fewer.
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The various Answers here said the same thing, but the levels of punctuation varied.
America always needs a capital A, so Answer 1 was wrong. Answer 2 is about right. Answer 3 does not really need capitals on The Fall, even though it's a title (of sorts); and the apostrophe later has wandered away from where it belongs; Answer 4 has further unnecessary apostrophes in it. |
English (unlike several other languages) deals with the 'odd minutes' before telling what is the nearest hour. Answer 3 was more like what French (among others) would say; Answer 2 was more like Russian.
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If you were out as late as that, you're probably tired and will wish to explain this (if you need to) in as short and simple a way as you can. Each of these other ways of saying it is possible and understandable, but in this situation you would not bother to use them. Answer 2 sounds pedantic, prissy and old-fashioned; the 'evening' is usually understood to finish a bit earlier than this (in Answer 3); Answer 4 has far too much snappy military precision about it. You wouldn't say 'about ..' if you were then going to be so precise, all in the same breath!
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Be careful of the spelling of 'fourteenth' (obviously related to 'four'), and not to confuse it with 'fortieth' which sounds and looks quite similar, but is still about 2,000 years in our future!
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Each word in these two event titles should begin with a capital letter.
If you don't understand what either of them is, please do some research or ask an English friend. There is also Hallowe'en on the last night of October ... Meanwhile we do not bother with 'the' in front of the titles of these festivals, nor of Christmas, Easter, or New Year (nor their respective 'eves': the day and night beforehand). |
The date format and use of capital initials are only correct in this version. (Compare the others; look how they go up and down!)
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Answer 4 would sound all right, but 'twenty-five' is usually hyphenated and the Friday must have a capital initial.
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The initials (check them!) go J,F,M,A,M,J, 'JASON', D.
On a similar theme, someone has recently pointed out that if you try the same thing with the days of the week, they go: M, T, 'WTF' ... this sounds a bit like someone that doesn't enjoy their work, and can't cope with any more after Tuesday! (You may need a kind English friend to explain the acronym 'WTF' gently to you, if you haven't already come across it anywhere.) |
Don't forget that the names of days and months always begin with a capital letter in English.