Fractions and decimals:
½ one half (a half)
1/3 one third (a third)
2/7 two sevenths
3 ½ three and a half
4 1/7 four and one seventh
0. 2 0 point two
0.002 0 point 00 two
1.1 one point one
1. 25 one point two five
63. 57 sixty- three point five seven
1900 – nineteen hundred
1906 – nineteen o [ou] six; nineteen hundred and six.
1916 – nineteen sixteen
1962 – nineteen sixty-two
2000 – two thousand
2003 – two thousand and three
Ordinal Numbers:
1st - the first 14th –the fourteenth
2nd – the second 15th –the fifteenth
3rd –the third 16th –the sixteenth
4th – the fourth 17th –the seventeenth
5th –the fifth 18th – the eighteenth
6th – the sixth 19th –the nineteenth
7th –the seventh 20th –the twentieth
8th –the eighth 21st –the twenty- first
9th –the ninth 30th –the thirtieth
10th –the tenth 40th –the fortieth
11th – the eleventh 100th –the one hundredth
12th –the twelfth 202nd – the two hundred and second
13th –the thirteenth 1000th – the one thousandth
TEXT
Diana tells her friend Robert that she wants to learn the ordinal numbers in English.
- “Please teach me,” she says.
- “The ordinal numbers are easy to learn in English,” he says.
- “You already know words ‘first, second, third’. It is easy to form the ordinal numbers after these numbers. We simply add th to the cardinal number, for example:
four – fourth
five – fifth
six – sixth”
- “Do a lot of people use ordinal numbers? I mean, when we speak English, do we use ordinal numbers a lot?”
- “I believe, yes. For example, in England one says; ‘I live on 72nd street’ or ‘The University is on Third Avenue”.
- “Do the streets in the United States generally have numbers instead of names?”
- “No, I think most streets have names. But in large cities, where there are many, many streets it is sometimes simpler to use numbers.”
- “New York city is a large city. What do they do there?”
- “Both streets and avenues have numbers in New York City. There is First Avenue, Fifth Avenue. There are hundreds of streets, 42nd street, 86th street, 99th street, etc.”
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