Which sentence do you think sounds more grammatically correct in English? Option 1 or option 2?

[Anonymous]

1. Were you born on the same year as me?

2. Were you born in the same year as me?

Yes, not everyone on Girlsaskguys is a native speaker of English.

[Oliverlogan263]

Option 2 sounds more grammatically correct to me:

"Were you born in the same year as me?"

Using "in" makes more sense there when talking about the year something happened, like being born. You'd say someone was "born in 1990", not "born on 1990".

Option 1 doesn't really sound right. I don't think I've ever heard a native English speaker say "born on the same year". It's always "in the same year" to indicate the time period or timeframe something took place.

So between those choices, I'd go with Option 2 as the more grammatically correct way to ask about being born in the same calendar year as someone else in English. The preposition "in" just flows better there.

[RebelinSteel]

What I tend to follow is singular v collective. With on its singular, I was born on a Monday, it’s a single entity. I was born in January, I was born in 1815, these are all collectives.

i was born on Christmas Day, I was born on a bank holiday, he died on Tuesday.

[purplepoppy]

Learning the difference between in and on is one of the hardest things to master when learning a language.

I was born ON a Monday
I was born IN July.
I was born ON the 5th of July.

I got ON a train
I got IN a car

You can also drop IN/ON in speech to sound more like a native speaker

I was born the 5th of July

[DishLady]

The correct would be “Were you born the same year as I was?” (In and On can be skipped in this case. I, not me. Ok?)

[Aubrey97]

It doesn't necessarily make sense now that I think about it but on is usually only used for the day and in is used for the year. But it's perfectly fine to leave in or on out and just ask "were you born the same year as me"?

[EmmaMary]

Definitely option 2.

[DreamLife7]

As a teacher