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1. See you at 10 am on 22 March, Friday.

2. See you at 10 am on Friday, 22 March.

Are the above sentences correct, please?

Thanks.
 
Both are correct.
 
I think 1. is wrong. I'm used to placing the weekday before the date.

I (an American) would write "I'll see you at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 22", but I would say "See you at ten in the morning on Friday, March 22nd".
 
If we're going to get picky I would probably put "Friday" in parentheses in the first one.

:)
 
We need to be picky here, and point out to other learners that 'See you on Friday' is fine in casual conversation but grammatically incorrect as it lacks I'll at the start.

Whether you put the day or date first is not worth making a fuss about.
 
In speech, it makes more sense to me to say the day before the date.
 
In speech, it makes more sense to me to say the day before the date.

So, I should say:

"I'll see you at 10 am on Friday, 22 March."

Am I right?
 
In writing, both are correct.

If we are speaking the most natural way would be:
"See you at 10 am on Friday, March 22nd"
or
"See you Friday, March 22nd at 10 am"
 
So, I should say:

"I'll see you at 10 am on Friday, 22 March."

Either that or:

"I'll see you on Friday at 10 AM on March 22."

(The person who mentioned parentheses wasn't thinking in terms of speech. ;-) )
 
10 AM on Friday, March 22.

:)
 
American English speakers like to put the month first.

British English speakers are more likely to say 'at !0am on Friday, the twenty-second of March'.

(In writing, that would be 'at 10am on Friday, 22nd March'.
 
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