What is correct? I'm sitting on or in desk.

[LauraChang2007]

I'm sitting on desk or in desk. What is correct?

 

[jutfrank]

Re: What is correct?

I'm sitting at my desk. = I'm sitting on a chair. This is what people normally do when they are working.

I'm sitting on my desk. = I'm sitting on my desk, and my feet are not touching the ground. This is not what people normally do.

 

[Rover_KE]

Don't sit in your desk: that's where your books, pens and other stationery items are.

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[LauraChang2007]

Also, for year of birth, do you say on or in. I was born on 1982 or in 1982?

 

[emsr2d2]

Also, for my/one's year of birth, do you say "on" or "in"?

"I was born on 1982" or "I was born in 1982"?

Use "in" with years. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about your year of birth or using a year in another context.

I was born in 1982.
I left school in 1995.
He finished university in 2002.
I will be 65 in 2019.
Jupiter was discovered in 1853.

 

[Rover_KE]

However, Laura, if you're being more precise about your date of birth,

say 'I was born on the fourth of May, 1938'; write 'I was born on 4th May, 1938' or

'My date of birth is the fourth of May etc' or (in a CV for example) 'DOB 4th May 1938'.

Confusingly for students, there are other ways of saying and writing dates. Click here.

 

[LauraChang2007]

Ok, that is a lot of rules, Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Okay, that is a lot of rules. Thanks.

Note my corrections above. At the start of a sentence, write "Okay" or "OK". Elsewhere in a sentence, write "okay" or "OK". Don't use a capital letter after a comma unless the next word is a proper noun. The comma you used after "rules" created a comma splice.

 

[Rover_KE]

Again, you didn't need to write that post, Laura.

Have you found the Thank button? It's in the bottom left-hand corner of every post.

Try it now.:-D

 

[SoothingDave]

Your native language is American English?