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LAURA RUEDA
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ENGLISH 1
CONTADURIA PÚBLICA
BELLO, COLOMBIA
2019
ORDINAL AND CARDINAL NUMBERS
Ordinal Numbers: 1st (first), 2nd (second), etc. You use ordinal numbers to describe
order or sequence.
Particularities of ordinal
They are formed by adding the suffix - th to the number, except for the first three
(first, second, third). They are expressed in abbreviated form by adding to the figures the
last two letters of the ordinal: 1st = 1st, 2nd = 2nd, 3rd = 3rd, 4th = 4th, 5th = 5th.
You use “the” with ordinal numbers. Example: January is the first month of the
year.
We use cardinal numbers to express age, phone numbers, numbers in an address and
we sometimes use ordinal numbers for some dates and addresses also.
cardinal numbers.
nine,
Other examples
When mentioning a year before 2000, you separate the number in two parts:
first, you mention the first two digits as one number, and then the other two as
For example: the year 1960 is read or said nineteen sixty. Another example:
1989, nineteen eighty-nine. The year 2000: two thousand, the year 2004: two
Date of birth
In English the order is month, day, and year. For example, January 6 th,
2017.
Date of birth: The month, n umber of the day in the month, and year you
were born.
For example: Birth date of Benito Juarez: March 21, 1806 or March 21 st ,
Question: Which is your birth date? / When were you born? / When
was X born?
You use the preposition ON when you give a specific date. Use the
preposition IN when you only mention the month or the day, not the date.
ORDINAL AND CARDINAL NUMBERS
Bibliography
Flores Kastanis, Paula. (2017), Libro english 1 (Tercera ed., págs. 95-96 Grupo
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