- indicate exact number, used in counting
Morphological composition:
- simple: 1-12, 100, 1,00, 1,000,000
- derivatives:13-19 (-teen)
20-90 (-ty)
- compound (composite): 21-29 31- 39 etc.
Note: a hundred/one hundred
a thousand/one thousand
a million/one million
collective
a dozen /one dozen (12) numbers
a score / one score (20)two dozen (24)a gross/one gross (12 dozen)
Functions:
- subject: Three plus three is six.
- object: I bought four ( of them).
- predictive: He is five.
- Attribute: There were four men in the room.
- Adverb. modifier: I get up at seven.
Note: used instead of ordinals in postposition:
Book Four but the fourth book, Act Three but the third,net Unit 5, lecture 3, line 6, paragraph 2, Chapter X, No. (number) 49 = # 49 (US English), Apartment 12, World War II(but the Second World War)
- Show the order of persons or things in a series
Morphological composition:
(the same)
- Except the first three: 1st (the first), 2nd (the second), 3d (the third) are formed from cardinal numerals by means of the suffix – th.
Mind the pronunciation:
20 – twenty but the 20ieth [ˈtwentııи]
30 – thirty but the 30ieth, etc.
Note: normally they are used with the definite article: This is the second floor. But can be used with the indefinite article when they do not show a definite order of persons or things in a series: The bell rang once, then a second time, then a third.
Functions:
- Attribute: This is my firstdance.
- Subject: Then advancing towards us came a f ifth.
- Predicative: So I might as well bethe first.
- object: She noted a scar on his cheek, another... and a third that ran...
DATES
seven hundred (and) thirty-one
nineteen hundred
nineteen [ou] four
two thousand
two thousand nine
15th, May 1948
May 15th, 1948
May 15, 1948
The fifteenth of May, nineteen forty-eight.May the fifteenth, nineteen forty-eight.
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indicate exact number, used in counting
Morphological composition:
- simple: 1-12, 100, 1,00, 1,000,000
- derivatives:13-19 (-teen)
20-90 (-ty)
- compound (composite): 21-29 31- 39 etc.
Note: a hundred/one hundred
a thousand/one thousand
a million/one million
collective
a dozen /one dozen (12) numbers
a score / one score (20)
two dozen (24)
a gross/one gross (12 dozen)
Functions:
- subject: Three plus three is six.
- object: I bought four ( of them).
- predictive: He is five.
- Attribute: There were four men in the room.
- Adverb. modifier: I get up at seven.
Note: used instead of ordinals in postposition:
Book Four but the fourth book, Act Three but the third,net Unit 5, lecture 3, line 6, paragraph 2, Chapter X, No. (number) 49 = # 49 (US English), Apartment 12, World War II(but the Second World War)
