UNIT 5

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*FORM:

*10 ten 13 thirteen 15 fifteen 20 twenty 30 thirty 40 forty 50 fifty 60

sixty 70 seventy 80 eighty 90 ninety.

*100 a hundred one hundred.

*201 two hundred AND one.

*354 three hundred AND fifty-four.

*1,000 a thousand/ one thousand.

*8,006 eight thousand AND six.

*9,999 nine thousand, nine hundred AND ninety-nine.

USE:

Numbers are adjectives and adjectives do not change form in

English. We say hundred and thousand not hundreds and thousands.

In English we use a comma (,) and not a full stop (.) to show the

thousands.

*FORM:

*642 331209. six-four-two-double three-one-two-oh-nine.

six-four-two-three-three-one-two-zero-nine.

*656 146713. six-five-six-one-four-six-seven-one-three.

USE:

In English we usually say the numbers one at time. We can use

the word double if two consecutive numbers are the same.

We usually say OH FOR 0 in telephone numbers. Sometimes

people say ZERO.

*FORM:

* 1st First 2nd Second 3rd Third 4th Fourth 5th Fifth 8th Eighth

9th Ninth 12th Twelfth 13th thirteenth 20th Twentieth.

<<ALL THE NUMBERS TAKE –TH, EXCEPT FOR FIRST, SECOND AND

THIRD.>>

USE:

We use these numbers when we talk about dates.

We write: 2nd June We say: the second of June.

“ : 29th December “: the twenty-ninth of December.

We use these numbers when we want to show the order of

things.

*FORM:

WE SAY OR

7.00 It’s seven o’clock. Seven five/ seven oh five

7.10 It’s ten past seven. Seven ten

7.15 It’s (a) quarter past seven. Seven fifteen.

7.30 It’s half past seven. Seven thirty.

7.35 It’s twenty-five to eight. Seven thirty-five.

7.45 It’s (a) quarter to eight. Seven forty-five.

USE:

In formal situations we say am for times between midnight and

noon. We say pm for times between noon and midnight.

For 12.00 in the day we usually say (twelve) noon or midday.

For 12.00 at night we usually say midnight.

** For reading the dates, we say the year two by two. (You can think

that there is a point in the middle of the year.) Example: 1856

(18.56) eighteen fifty-six.

*1600: sixteen hundred.

*1818: eighteen eighteen.

*1903: nineteen oh three.

*2001: two thousand and one.

WE WRITE WE SAY

15th January,1992 the fifteenth of January, nineteen ninety-two.

20th May, 1988 the twentieth of May, nineteen eighty-eight.

29.02.12 the twenty-ninth of February, two thousand twelve.