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August 6's class

JustAUsername

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Portuguese - Brazil (Português - Brasil)
Is writing "August 6's class" OK? How would you pronounce this ("August six" or "August sixth's")?
Please give us the complete sentence in which you would use the phrase. What are you trying to say?
While it is easy enough to speak of "tomorrow's class", or "next Tuesday's class", the pronunciation of "August sixth's" (and it would be "sixths", exactly the same as the fraction) is so clumsy and ill-sounding that I think most people would say "the class on/of August 6th".
Is the 's really necessary?
Would "The August 6 class has been canceled" be OK?​
The likelihood of anyone putting a possessive on a date's number like that is slim to none.
I would never use the possessive here. We could treat the date as a noun being used adjectivally in writing: "the August 6th appointment was cancelled".
"The class of August the sixth was cancelled" is what I would say.
I don't object to that use of the possessive with a date as much as everyone else seems to - at least not in writing.

I will concede that "August 6th's class has been cancelled" is an awkward thing to try and say. 👁 Wink ;)
I was talking about the original:
August 6's class
Thank you all for the help! 👁 Smile :)

And sorry for taking so long to reply, I thought I had already done that.
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