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The document discusses different types of numerals in English including cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages and years. Cardinal numbers indicate quantity while ordinal numbers indicate order. Fractions are written with words and hyphens. Decimals are read using 'point'. Percentages are written with the word 'percent' without an 's'.

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Numerals

The document discusses different types of numerals in English including cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages and years. Cardinal numbers indicate quantity while ordinal numbers indicate order. Fractions are written with words and hyphens. Decimals are read using 'point'. Percentages are written with the word 'percent' without an 's'.

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Numerals • 1 – first

Numerals are an independent part of speech that indicates the • 2 – second


number of objects or their order.
• 3 – third
English numerals are divided into cardinal and ordinal
• 4 – fourth
numbers.
• 5 – fifth
Cardinal numbers indicate the number of objects. They
answer the question “how much?” • 6 – sixth

• 1 – one
• 2 – two Nouns preceded by ordinal numbers are used with the
definite article the.
• 3 – three
• It is the first time I see such beautiful flowers. – В
• 14 – fourteen
первый раз я вижу такие красивые цветы!
• 15 – fifteen
• The tenth candy was too much for me. – Десятая
• 16 – sixteen конфета была для меня лишней.
• 200 – two hundred
• 1000 – one thousand The number zero (0) in English can be read differently
depending on the context: zero, o, nil.
- "zero" used in fractions, percentages, telephone
Ordinal numerals indicate the order of objects, their ordinal
numbers, and in certain expressions.
number. They answer the question “what is the count?” Most
ordinal numbers are formed with the ending -th.
• Please, write down my phone number: three-two-four • 2016 – twenty sixteen, two thousand sixteen
zero-zero-one six-eight-six. – Пожалуйста, запишите мой
телефон: 3-2-4 0-0-1 6-8-6.
Fractions (дроби) in English are often written with words
- O (read as the English letter o [əu]) - used to indicate
and a hyphen if the numerator or denominator does not use
years, times, addresses, and sometimes telephone numbers.
its own hyphen. For the numerator cardinal numbers are
• It happened in fourteen o seven. – Это произошло в used, and for the denominator ordinal numbers are used.
1407 году.

• 1/2 – one-half, a half (0.5)


Nil – used in scoring sports matches.
• 1/100 – one-hundredth (0.01)
• Our team won with the score three-nil. – Наша
• 1/5 – one-fifth
команда выиграла со счетом 3-0.
• 1/1000 – one-thousandth

Years in English are denoted by cardinal numerals. When


reading, four-digit years are divided in half and these halves Decimals in English are read using the word point, after
are read as two separate numbers. However, millenniums which all numbers are read separately. This rule does not
(millennia, e.g. 2000) are read by thousands. apply to counting money.

• 1825 – eighteen twenty-five • 0.2 – zero point two (point two)

• 1901 – nineteen o one • 1.05 – one point zero five

• 2000 – two thousand • 0.25 – zero point two five (point two five)

• 1003 – ten o three • 13.445 – thirteen point four four five


Percentages in English are denoted by the word percent.
After numerals, the word percent never takes the plural
ending -s,
• 1% – one percent
• 10% – ten percent
• 255% – two hundred fifty-five percent

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