Numbers Zyp

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• Studiejaar 1

What do we think of the Green Computing learning Unit so far?

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1. The numbers in English

1.1. Cardinal numbers

Cardinal numbers say how many people or things there are.

Examples:
    There are five books on the desk.
    Ron is ten years old.

1.1.1. Numbers bigger than 20

21   =  twenty-one
55 =     fifty-five

99  =   ninety-nine

What is the rule?

1.1.2. Numbers bigger than 100

121     a/one hundred and twenty-one
356     three hundred and fifty-six
999     nine hundred and ninety-nine

256? (British)

1. two hundred fifty-six
2. two hundred and fiftysix
3. two hundred and fifty-six

1.1.3.Numbers bigger than 1,000

1,121     a/one thousand and one hundred and twenty-one

2,356     two thousand and three hundred and fifty-six

Rule?

Rule?

Use a hyphen between compound numbers and the word and.
Use either the definite article a or one for 1,000.
Separate three digits with a comma (,) → 50,000.

Ordinal Numbers?

representing position or rank in a sequential order

seven

1. cardinal
2. ordinal

The seventh son

1. ordinal
2. cardinal

I am so happy that he won the 1 prize.
(write the full number)

ten thousand (number British)

It was his derde goal in the last twee games.

The old man celebrated his 88 birthday.

Answers

first

10,000

third, two

eighty-eighth

It's his veertigste birthday.

1. fourtieth
2. forties
3. fourty
4. fortieth

Does it make sense?

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