prepositions
When watching US television news or reading US news articles there is this affectation where instead of saying:
"Spotify music-streaming service to launch in U.S. on Thursday" (CNN)
or
"Leading credit rating agency Moody's said on Wednesday that the U.S. government's impeccable credit…" (Fox)
The on preposition is missed out.
Is this just a peculiar US journalistic "news speak" shortcut or do American non-journalist writers write this way too?
According to 1913 Webster's upon is interchangeable with on, however if you look at ngrams
you will find that upon is used less and less as there is, I believe, a slight archaic and/or formal tone to it.
All your sentences seem correct to me, but I would choose shorter and simpler constructs (using only when or without conjunction).
Here is ngrams graph that compares upon which and on which
A variation of your first sentence:
My test is on the 22nd of June.
Although you may write on June 22, 2013, in a conversation I would say on the 22nd of June - notice the the and the nd ending of the 22nd. Alternatively you can say on June 22nd.
More here In, At, On + Time or Date
- in + month or year - in March, in 2013
- on + date (with the year or without it) or day of the week - on April 2, on March 3, 2014, on Saturday
- at + clock time, midnight, noon - at 3:30 p.m., at 4:01, at noon
Remember also...
- in + season - in the summer, in the winter
- in + morning, afternoon, evening - in the morning, in the evening
- at + night - at night
Best Answer
This is a common elision in US English, yes, though very rarely in British English. It also seems to be done a lot by French speakers who have learnt English, because this elision is always done in French (or rather, it's always been the case in French that one refers to a day simply by saying the day, rather than on the day); I see this done a lot on the France 24 news channel, even by those newsreaders with a British accent.
It is also commonly done with months, eg.