The Numerals

COMPLETED BY: XAMRAQULOVA D

• Almalyk branch of Tashkent State Technical University
• Fans: English
• The theme: Numerals.

The Numerals

• Cardinal –
• (one, two);
• Ordinal- (the first, the second);

Cardinals

• 1) 13-19 – teen
• eighteen [ˌeɪˈtiːn]
• three – thirteen
• five – fifteen
• 2) tens are formed by –ty
• seventy [ˈsevntɪ]
• two – twenty
• three – thirty
• four – forty
• five – fifty
• eight - eighty

3) Tens and units are written through a hyphen

• 3) Tens and units are written through a hyphen
• twenty-three
• 4) “hundred”, “thousand”, and “million” in singular are used with the article “a” or the numeral “one”
• a hundred, one million
• 5) They do not need the ending –s after a cardinal numeral
• two hundred, three thousand, five million
• 6) In compound numerals with “hundred”, “thousand”, and “million” before tens and units the conjunction “and” is required
• 417 – four hundred and seventeen
• 3061 – three thousand and sixty-one
• 506 – five hundred and six
• 3567 – three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven

7) The years are named by cardinals

• 7) The years are named by cardinals
• 1917 – nineteen seventeen
• 1800 – eighteen hundred
• 1905 – nineteen hundred and five / nineteen o five
• 8) Cardinals are used in the numbers of rooms, houses, pages, groups etc. The nouns do not need an article.
• room 3
• Open your books at page 45.
• Exercise 8 is on page 15.
• 9) Cardinals are used in telephone numbers.
• 953910 – nine five three nine one o
• 773355 – double seven double three double five
• 10) Decimals (10ׂׂ 92, 8ׂ 04) are read correspondently
• ten point nine two, eight point nought / zero / o / four

Ordinals

• 1) one – the first
• two – the second
• three – the third
• 2) –th
• five – the fifth
• twelve – the twelfth
• eight – the eighth
• nine – the ninth
• twenty – the twentieth
• forty – the fortieth
• 3) thirty-two – the thirty-second
• two hundred and twenty-one – the two hundred and twenty-first
• 4) Dates
• the eighteenth of March / March, the eighteenth
• 5) Fractions
• ½ - a / one half
• ¼ - a / one quarter
• 1/5 – a / one fifth
• 1/10 – a / one tenth
• 3/5 – three fifths
• 7/10 – seven tenths
• half + noun – half an hour, half a second
• a quarter + of + noun – a quarter of an hour, a quarter of a second

A Billion

• A Billion
• When is a billion not a billion?
• In British English billion traditionally means a million million = 1,000,000,000,000;
• In American English billion means a thousand million = 1,000,000,000;
• Milliard is French for the number 1,000,000,000;
• It is not used in American English but is sometimes, but rarely, used in British English.

Years (dates)

• Years (dates)
• 1666 – sixteen sixty-six;
• 1050 – ten fifty \ one thousand and fifty;
• 2000 – twenty hundred \ two thousand;
• 2006 – two thousand and six, twenty oh six;
• BC = 'Before Christ‘ – in 996 BC;
• AD = 'Anno Domini' (in the year of the Lord) –
• in 2014 AD.

The Figure “O”

• The Figure “O”
• 0-[ou ] in 1904;
• 0-[ou ] in flight numbers or credit cards;
• 3) 0- “nought” (zero) in mathematics;
• 4) 0 – “zero” in temperature;
• 5) 0- “nil” in sports Am E – zero or nothing;
• 6) 0 – “love” in tennis.

A dozen

• A dozen
• 1) The number 12 is often represented as a dozen and the number 6 as a half dozen.
• 12 eggs= "A dozen eggs.“
• 6 eggs = "Half a dozen eggs."
• 2) A dozen is 12, but a baker's dozen is 13, because in the past bakers who were caught shortchanging customers could be liable to severe punishment, so they used to add an extra bread roll to make up the weight.
• A decade
• The English for 10 years is a decade;
• A half decade is 5;
• It took him a decade to learn French.

Letters as Numbers

• Letters as Numbers
• 1) The letter k is often used to denote a thousand. So, 1k = 1,000.
• If you see a job advertised and it offers a salary of £12k it means £12,000.00.
• 2) The letter m is often used to denote a million. So, 1m = 1,000,000.
• If you see a job advertised and it offers a salary of £12m, apply for it!
• 3) The letters bn denote a billion. So, 1bn is usually 1,000,000,000
• If you see a job advertised and it offers a salary of £12bn, it's probably a missprint.
• 4) The word myriad used to mean 10,000. Nowadays it's used to refer to a countless number or multitude of specified things.
• For example: Earth hosts a myriad of animals. (hyperbole)

Numerals – Nouns

• Numerals – Nouns
• A hundred people = 100 people.
• A hundred thousand = 100 000
• 5 thousand animals = 5000 animals.
• Millions of people;
• Tens of species;
• Thousands of animals.