Ежегодно миллионы людей умирают от голода

2) Я ему говорил это сотни раз.

3) Он заплатил несколько миллионов долларов.

4) Это пятый трамвай?

5) Прочитайте снова пятый урок.

6) Вы мне должны 281 доллар.

7) 7 – счастливое число.

8) Он живет в восьмой квартире.

9) 400 людей принимают участие в Конгрессе.

10) 42 доллара и двадцать пять центов покрыли все его расходы.

11) 13 человек были из Калифорнии.

12) Тебе понадобится дюжина (12) яиц, чтобы сделать этот торт.

13) Он был сто первым клиентом.

14) Я обычно еду на работу десятым автобусом.

15) На этой улице больше 250 домов.

16) В 358 г. до н.э. они завоевали остров.

17) 18 лет – это прекрасный возраст.

18) Книга была опубликована в семидесятых годах.

19) Они остались на четверть часа.

20) Десятая часть населения неграмотна.

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Numerals. Meaning and Use

The numeral is a part of speech indicating number absolutely (five centuries) or relatively to other persons and things in a series (the fifth century).Accordingly numerals are divided into cardinal and ordinal numerals (or cardinals and ordinals).

Cardinal numerals (one, two, five, etc.) indicate the exact number and are used in counting as in five books, or in reading indications as in page 6 (six), chapter 11 (eleven), No 24 (twenty-four), flat 51 (fifty-one). (Cf., however, Russian where both cardinals and ordinals are possible: страница шесть и страница шестая; глава одиннадцать и глава одиннадцатая; номер двадцать четыре и номер двадцать четвертый, квартира пятьдесят один и квартира пятьдесят первая).

Cardinals may be simple words (numerals from one to twelve and the words hundred, thousand and million), derivatives with the suffix -teen (from thir teen to nine teen) and – ty indicating tens as in twen ty, thir ty, etc., and composits spelt with a hyphen as twenty-one, thirty-two or written separately as two hundred and forty-five.

NOTE:

a) the use of the conjunction and in a composite after the word hundred before the last word, in this case it is forty-five.

b) the use of the words hundred, thousand, and million: when used of a definite number (or the word several) – they are never made plural: six hundred men, two hundred times, several million dollars (note also the lack of the preposition of in this case).

If these words are used to convey the idea of a large number, they must be made plural (note the use of the preposition of): hundreds of people; I’ve told him so hundreds of times. Millions of people die every year from starvation.

The expressions dozen and score follow the same rules: a dozen eggs but dozens of eggs.

c) The plural forties denotes an age or a period between 40 and 50; similarly with fifties, sixties, etc.: She was a good-looking woman in her forties. The book was published in the seventies/in the ’70s/in the 1970s .

Ordinal numerals (first, second, etc.) show the order of persons and things. Ordinals (with exception of the first three – first, second, third) are formed by means of the suffix –th. Generally, they are used with the definite article: the six th, the eigh th but sometimes with the indefinite article when they do not show a definite order but have the meaning ‘one more’: a third baby cried.

Examples of cardinals and ordinals are presented in the following list.

0 nought, etc.

1 one 1^st first

2 two 2^nd second

3 three 3^rd (3d) third

4 four 4^th fourth

5 five 5^th fifth

6 six 6^th sixth

7 seven 7^th seventh

8 eight 8^th eighth

9 nine 9^th ninth

10 ten 10^th tenth

11 eleven 11^th eleventh

12 twelve 12^th twelfth

13 thirteen 13^th thirteenth

14 fourteen 14^th fourteenth

15 fifteen 15^th fifteenth

16 sixteen 16^th sixteenth

17 seventeen 17^th seventeenth

18 eighteen 18^th eighteenth

19 nineteen 19^th nineteenth

20 twenty 20^th twentieth

21 twenty-one, etc. 21^st twenty-first, etc.

30 thirty 30^th thirtieth

40 forty 40^th fortieth

100 one/a hundred 100^th (one) hundredth

101 one/a hundred and one 101^st (one) hundred and first

400 four hundred 400^th four hundredth

1,000 one thousand 1,000^th (one) thousandth

100,000 one/a hundred thousand 100,000^th (one) hundred thousandth

1,000,000 one/a million 1,000,000 ^th (one) millionth

NOTE:

a) the irregular spelling of ordinal numerals fifth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth;

b) the suffixation of ordinal numbers expressed in figures – the last two letters of the written word must be added: 1st, 2^nd, 3^rd, or 3d, 4th.