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Discussion questions and exercise tasks: I. Consider your answers to the following:

1. 
   Characterize the groups of numerals in English and Ukrainian languages.
   
2. 
   What are the peculiarities of Ukrainian collective numerals?
   

3. What are the groups of English and Ukrainian numerals
according to their stem-structure?

4. 
   Compare the group of fractional numerals in both contrasted languages.
   
5. 
   What are the peculiarities of Ukrainian ordinal numerals in comparison with the English ones?
   

6. 
   Characterize numeral as a part of speech (think of the number о Г grammatical categories, typical stem-building elements, combinability, syntactic functions). Do these characteristics differ or coincide in the contrasted languages?
   
7. 
   How can you characterize the combinability of numeral as a part of speech in English and Ukrainian languages?
   

II. Find all the numerals in the following piece of writing.
Classify these numerals being either cardinal or ordinal (is pos­
sible other type); comment on their grammatical characteristics.

1. 
   Four people were arrested (newspaper text).
   
2. 
   Four of the ten traders have pleaded guilty (newspaper text).
   

3. 
   Cops in twos and threes huddle and smile at me with benevolence (fiction text).
   
4. 
   Damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds (newspaper text).
   

5.1 was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second nd last story of the day when the phone rang (fiction text).

6. 
   Three men will appear before Belfast magistrates today on charges of intimidation. A fourth will be charged with having information likely to be of use to terrorists. The fifth, a woman, was remanded on the same charge yesterday (newspaper text).
   
7. 
   Probably two thirds of the people who live here now are not natives (conversation transcript).
   
8. 
   The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit for values of tenths, hundredths and thousandths (academic text).
   

*The material is taken from "Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English" by Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber, Geoffrey Leech, Pearson Education Limited, 2003. - P.34-35.