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1. This document provides guidance on writing and saying numbers in English, including cardinal and ordinal numbers, fractions, decimals, and mathematical symbols. 2. Cardinal numbers are written as adjectives without changing form, and hundreds, thousands, and millions add an 's' in the plural. Commas are used to separate thousands. 3. Ordinal numbers indicate order and are used with dates, taking unique endings like -st, -nd, -rd, and -th depending on the number.

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Cardinal Numbers Powerpoint

1. This document provides guidance on writing and saying numbers in English, including cardinal and ordinal numbers, fractions, decimals, and mathematical symbols. 2. Cardinal numbers are written as adjectives without changing form, and hundreds, thousands, and millions add an 's' in the plural. Commas are used to separate thousands. 3. Ordinal numbers indicate order and are used with dates, taking unique endings like -st, -nd, -rd, and -th depending on the number.

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CARDINAL NUMBERS

USE
1. Numbers are adjectives and adjectives
do not change form in English:

Two hundred (times)


Three thousand (casualties)
Several million (dollars)
Hundred, thousand and million have the – s
plural when they denote an indefinite
number:

I’ve told him so hundreds of times.


There were thousands of spectators at the
demonstration.
Millions of people die every year from
starvation.
2. In English, we use a comma (,) and not a full
stop (.) to show the thousands:

1,520 - one thousand, five hundred and twenty

6,215 - six thousand, two hundred and fifteen


(When accounts are prepared on computer,
commas are not used. The number appears as
6210)
3. If we write a number in words, we put a
comma after thousand when the next
words are numbers of more than ninety-
nine:

3,068 - three thousand and sixty-eight


5,099 - five thousand and ninety-nine
5,100 - five thousand, one hundred
8,346 - eight thousand, three hundred and
forty-six
OH, ZERO, NOUGHT, NIL, LOVE
1. OH
- In telephone numbers 670258 six-seven-
oh-two-five-eight
- After a decimal point 8.07 eight point oh
seven
- In bus numbers No. 702 get the seven oh
two
- In hotel room numbers Room 206 I’m in
room two oh six
- In years 1905 nineteen oh five
2. ZERO
- For the number 0 the number zero
-For temperature - 5ºC five degrees below zero
3. NOUGHT
-Before the decimal point 0.02 nought point oh
two
4. NIL
-In football scores 5 – 0 Portugal won five nil
5. LOVE
- In tennis 15 – 0 The score is fifteen - love
ORDINAL NUMBERS
USE

Ordinal numbers are used to indicate an


order (Mary is the first of the class; John is
the second, etc…) and they are also used
with dates (I was born on the first of
December; My birthday is on the fifth of
July).
FORM
1st first
2nd second
3rd third
4th fourth
5th fifth (cardinal: five)
6th sixth
7th seventh
8th eighth
9th ninth (cardinal: nine)
10th tenth
21st twenty-first
22nd twenty-second
30th thirtieth
40th fortieth
50th fiftieth
60th sixtieth
70th seventieth
80th eightieth
90th ninetieth
100th (one) hundredth
101st one hundred and first
200th two hundredth
300th three hundredth
1,000th (one) thousandth
1,000,000th (one) millionth
124th – one hundred and twenty-fourth

816th – eight hundred and sixteenth


1,582nd – one thousand, five hundred and
eighty-second
THE DECIMAL POINT
In English, we use a point (.) and not a
comma (,) for decimals. We use commas in
figures only when writing thousands:

10,001 ten thousand and one


10.001 ten point oh oh one
2. In English, all the numbers after a
decimal point are read separately:

10.66 ten point six six(Not: ten point sixty-


six)
0.325 nought point three two five
2.5 two point five
10.01 ten point oh one
0.01 nought point oh one
3. You will also hear people say:

0.05 zero point oh five or nought point


oh five
But if the number after the decimal point is
a unit of money, it is read like a normal
number:
£12.50 twelve pounds fifty
THE FRACTIONS

Fractions are mostly like ordinal numbers (fifth,


sixth, twenty-third, etc) and they are read out in
full:
½ one half 2/2 two halves
1/3 one third 2/3 two thirds
¼ one quarter 2/4 two quarters
1/5 one fifth 3/5 three fifths
1/9 one ninth 2/9 two ninths
1/16 one sixteenth 3/16 three sixteenths
MATHEMATICAL SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Notice how we can express the following
mathematical signs and symbols:
= equals, is equal to, makes, comes to, is
- minus, less, take away
+ plus, and
X multiplied by, times
: divided by
% per cent
5 + 3 = 8five plus/and three is equal to
eight;
10 – 4 = 6 ten minus/less/take away four is
six;
3 x 5 = 15 three times five is equal to
fifteen;
25 : 5 = 5 twenty-five divided by five is five.
SQUARES, CUBES, AND ROOTS
ten squared
ten cubed
ten to the power of four
10ⁿ ten to the power of…

√9 = the square root of nine is three

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