Phonetics

Cardinal numerals are used in the function of subject, predi­cative, object, adverbial modifier and attribute (apposition)....the young man opposite had long since disappeared. Now the other two got out. (subject) Earle Fox was only fifty-four, bill he felt timeless and an­cient. (predicative) And again she saw them, but not four, more like forty laugh­ing, sneering, jeering...(object) At eight the gang sounded for supper.(adverbial modifier) Four men in their shirtsleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. (attribute) And he remembered the holidays they used to have the four of them, (apposition)

• Cardinal numerals are used in the function of subject, predi­cative, object, adverbial modifier and attribute (apposition)....the young man opposite had long since disappeared. Now the other two got out. (subject) Earle Fox was only fifty-four, bill he felt timeless and an­cient. (predicative) And again she saw them, but not four, more like forty laugh­ing, sneering, jeering...(object) At eight the gang sounded for supper.(adverbial modifier) Four men in their shirtsleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. (attribute) And he remembered the holidays they used to have the four of them, (apposition)

Cardinals are sometimes used to denote the place of an object in a series. Cardinals are used in reading indications: line 23, page 275, Chapter X, No. 49 etc. ... but from the corner of the street until she came to No. 26 she thought of those four flights of stairs. 

• Cardinals are sometimes used to denote the place of an object in a series. Cardinals are used in reading indications: line 23, page 275, Chapter X, No. 49 etc. ... but from the corner of the street until she came to No. 26 she thought of those four flights of stairs. 
• Class nouns modified by a numeral in post-position are used without articles.
• All he wanted was to be made to care again, but each night he took up his briefcase and walked home to dinner at 117th Street and Riverside Drive, apartment 12D.