CARDINAL

NUMBERS
 Cardinal Numbers
Cardinal numbers are normally used when you:

•count things: I have two brothers. There are thirty-one days in January.
•give your age: I am thirty-three years old. My sister is twenty-seven years
old.
•give your telephone number: Our phone number is two-six-three, three-
eight-four-seven. (2633847)
•give years: She was born in nineteen seventy-five (1975). America was
discovered in fourteen ninety-two

Notice how we divide the year into two parts. This is the form for year up to
1999. For the year 2000 and on, we say two thousand (2000), two thousand
and one (2001), two thousand and two (2002) etc.
 Cardinal Numbers
Instead of saying One Hundred, you can say A hundred.
e.g. (127) one hundred and twenty-seven OR (127) a hundred and twenty-
seven.

The same rule applies for one thousand (a thousand) and one million (a
million)

Notice that you need to use a hyphen (-) when you write the numbers
between 21 and 99.

With long numbers, we usually divide them into groups of three which are
divided by a comma. e.g. 5000000 (5 million) is normally written as
5,000,000
We normally give telephones by saying each individual number in it:

Our phone number is two six three, three eight four seven. (263-3847)
When there is a zero (0) in our telephone number, we often say O like the
name of the letter O.

e.g. 505-1023 = five-O-five, one-O-two-three.

If a phone number contains two of the same numbers together, we usually

say double (number).

If a phone number contains three of the same numbers together, we

usually say triple (number)

e.g. (212-8555) two one two, eight triple five.

To ask for someone's telephone number we say:
What's your phone number? It's 555-2565.

Mobile phone vs. Cell phone

Mobile phone is used in British English (and most of the rest of the world)
Cell phone is used in American English