Grammar: Numerals
The chief classes of numerals are cardinals and ordinals .
Cardinal numeral adjectives (one, two, three, four, etc.) are used in counting and answer the question “How many?" Here are few examples.
1. I had to pay three dollars.
2. There were forty-two vessels in the fleet.
Ordinal numeral adjectives (first, second, third, etc.) denote the position or order of a person or thing in a series. Here are few examples.
1. Carl plays the second violin.
2. Your friend is sitting in the fifth row.
Task 13. Choose the correct form.
My daughter is still a teenager. She is only fifteen/fifty.
He knew it was a painting worth $10 million/millions.
Three hundred/Three hundreds people gathered at the stadium.
In the section 2/section 2 we also suggest other topics that need to be researched.
The first battle of the American Revolution was fought in year/the year 1775.
Hundred/А hundred years ago the principal means of communication was by post and telegraph.
How many children are there in the school? About three hundred/three hundreds.
The report has got over five hundred/five hundreds pages.
It happened in the year two thousand and two/two thousand and second.
All International flights are from Terminal One /the Terminal One.
Task 14. Write the correct ordinal number.
Saturday is the __________ day of the week.
The ___________ month of the year is June. .
The ___________month of the year is March.
In a competition the gold medal is for the________ place and the silver medal is for the__________ place.
Task 15. Identify the ordinal position of the following letters: (The first one is done for you)
H is the eighth letter.
T is the _________________ letter.
Q is the __________________letter.
N is the __________________letter.
P is the __________________letter.
R is the _________________letter.
O is the _________________letter.
L is the_________________ letter.
J is the _________________ letter.
G is the _________________letter.
Task 16. Choose the correct form.
It happened in the middle of the twentyth/twentieth century.
He is now ranked hundred/hundredth in the world of tennis.
The car changed the life of people in the 20th/the 20s century.
At least two third/two thirds of the novel is about the life of people in the 19th century.
He was the third/the thirdth to arrive.
8 The USA ranks third/three in population.
I am the one hundred and first/one hundredth and first in this huge line.
Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings are among the most famous of the 19 century / the 19th century.
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