Cardinal and ordinal numbers

Cardinal numbers 0 OH ZERO 1 ONE 2 TWO 3 THREE 4 FOUR 5 FIVE 6 SIX 7 SEVEN 8 EIGHT 9 NINE

10 TEN

11 ELEVEN

12 TWELVE

Teen numbers

13 THIRTEEN14 FOURTEEN15 FIFTEEN16 SIXTEEN17 SEVENTEEN18 EIGHTEEN19 NINETEEN

TY numbers (tens)

20 TWENTY30 THIRTY40 FORTY50 FIFTY60 SIXTY70 SEVENTY80 EIGHTY90 NINETY

Remember:

My daughter is eighteen years old and her grandmother is eighty.

1880

We write the tens and the units, separated by a hyphen.21 TWENTY-ONE

32 THIRTY-TWO

55 FIFTY-FIVE

97 NINETY-SEVEN

100

ONE HUNDREDor

A HUNDRED

After hundred you need and

108 A hundred and eight

213 Two hundred and thirteen

390 Three hundred and ninety

666 Six hundred and sixty-six

1000

A THOUSAND or

ONE THOUSAND

After thousand you need a comma

1004 One thousand, four

1118 One thousand, one hundred and eighteen

3500 Three thousand, five hundred

6894 Six thousand, eight hundred and ninety-four

1000000

A MILLIONor

ONE MILLION

5000000FIVE MILLION

Millions IS WRONG

Listen to the numbers and repeat

Learn English numbers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IusYGcbfCs&

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Let’s write some numbers.

68 19 23 40 91 104 222 739 1215

…and

6430

12900 35827

115582

6941528

Ordinal numbers FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH SEVENTH EIGHTH NINTH TENTH

Ordinal numbers ending:

1……..st 2……..nd 3……. rd Except:

11 eleventh 12 twelfth 13 thirteenth

Others….. th

Ordinal numbers follow the same rule as cardinal numbers. 15th fifteenth 20th twentieth 21st twenty-first 22nd twenty-second 23rd twenty-third 24th twenty-fourth 32nd thirty-second 55th fifty-fifth 61st sixty-first

Ordinal numbers are used with dates

Today is December 8 2009.

We’ll say: ‘today is December the eighth two thousand nine.’ or ‘today is the eighth of December two thousand nine.’