{"id":72883,"date":"2019-11-16T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72883"},"modified":"2019-11-16T05:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:36:39","slug":"cardinal-and-ordinal-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/cardinal-and-ordinal-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal And Ordinal Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">After a noun we usually use a cardinal number instead of an ordinal number. This structure is common in titles.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth book &#8211; Book Four<br \/>\nThe third act &#8211; Act Three<br \/>\nHe is in class nine. OR He is in the ninth class.<\/p>\n<p>However, the names of kings and queens are said with ordinal numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Louis XIV: Louis the Fourteenth<br \/>\nElizabeth II: Elizabeth the Second<\/p>\n<p>Ordinal numbers up to twelfth are written in words, except in dates. Cardinal numbers up to twelve are written in words, except when telling the time.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal and ordinal numbers above twelve and twelfth are written in either words or figures as seems in each case the more convenient.<\/p>\n<h3>And; punctuation<\/h3>\n<p>British people always use <b>and<\/b> before the tens in a number. In American English, and can be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred and fifty 450 (GB\/US)<br \/>\nFour hundred fifty 450 (US)<br \/>\nTwo thousand, three hundred and forty two (2,342)<\/p>\n<p>In writing we generally use commas to divide large numbers into groups of three figures, by separating off the thousands and the millions. Note that we do not use commas in dates.<\/p>\n<p>56,542<br \/>\n4,312<br \/>\n4, 564, 453<br \/>\nThe year 1979<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a noun we usually use a cardinal number instead of an ordinal number. This structure is common in titles. The fourth book &#8211; Book Four The third act &#8211; Act Three He is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1882,874,875],"class_list":["post-72883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-cardinal-and-ordinal-numbers","tag-cardinal-numbers","tag-ordinal-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72884,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883\/revisions\/72884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}