Ah, something easier to explain for the second question:
@EnglishAnswers Why is it sometimes monday in english and sometimes mondays (with s)?
This is an important difference in English, because the 's' makes a big difference to what you mean. Let's look at these two sentences:
1. On Mondays I go to my friend's house.
2. On Monday I am going to my friend's house.
The use of two different tenses should help to see the difference: In the first sentence, 'Mondays' refers to every Monday, all the Mondays. In the second sentence, 'Monday' refers to a specific, single Monday, just one Monday.
In other words, to say 'Mondays' is the same as saying 'Every Monday'. To say 'Monday' is to indicate a specific Monday.
*A quick tense tip: When you say 'Mondays', you use the Present Simple Tense - I go - (General Truth). When you say 'Monday', you use the Present Continuous Tense - I am going - (Time is important).
**A quick capital letter tip: In your question you wrote, 'monday' and 'english'. The days of the week always have capital (big) letters to start: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc. When speaking about the English language, the 'E' in English is always capitalized (big).
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