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There are other possibilities:
30th March, 1983 March 30(th) 1983 March 30(th), 1983 30.3.83
British and American people write ‘all-figure’ dates differently: British
people put the day first, Americans put the month first.
6.4.77 = 6 April in Britain, June 4 in the USA.
For the position of dates in letters, see 192.

Speaking
30 March 1983 = (British) ‘March the thirtieth, nineteen eighty-three’ OR
‘The thirtieth of March, nineteen eighty-three’
(American) ‘March thirtieth, nineteen eighty-three’
For the use of prepcsitions in dates, see 55; 256.2, 3.

96 determiners

Determiners are words like the, my, this, some, either, every, enough,
several.
Determiners come at the beginning of noun phrases, but they are not
adjectives.
themoon aniceday myfatoldcat this house
every week several young students
We cannot usually put two determiners together. We can say the house,
my house or this house, but not the my heuse or the this house or this-
~my-house.

There are two groups of determiners:
GroupA

a/an the
my your his her its our your their one’s whose
this these that those

Group B

some any no
each every either neither
much many more most little less least
few fewer fewest enough several

all both half
what whatever which whichever