A 12-foot-tall, 13-foot-wide by 25-foot-long wall will be installed to meet the two-hour fire resistance requirement. The wall is required to be one foot from the tank and five feet from existing walls.” I would have written that similarly, except using a hyphen between inch and ...
Ordinals are written differently than their cardinal counterparts, so you may have to learn new rules. Let’s start with the suffixes. The ordinal suffixes follow the same formulas, so once you’ve mastered 1-20, you can apply them to any ordinal number, no matter how high. For quick...
On the surface, numbers are one of the easier elements of the English language. Since most languages around the world useArabic numbers, many non-native English speakers can write numbers in English without learning any new information. But some situations require numbers to be written out as wo...
Note: Notice that we used hyphens in the written forms of numbers 21 to 29 because it combines the two numbers. The same rule also applies to numbers from 31 to 99 when spelled out. Counting in hundreds and thousands Now that you know how to count from one to 100 in English, let’s...
A subscriber recently wrote in with a question that’s a good followup to last week’s Tip of the Week,Writing Numbers: “When are hyphens used with numbers? Is it 13 feet or 13-feet; 12 hours or 12-hours?” Rule:Generally, hyphenate between two or more adjectives when they come bef...
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Complex Numbers:For very large or complex numbers, consider writing them in a more readable format. For example, 1,000,000,000,000 can be written as “one trillion” instead of “one thousand billion.” Names of Large Numbers Table showing the names in word form for large numbers from one...
Numbers up to 20 will simply be written as their original number. After 20, a hyphen is needed to connect the tens place with the one's place when the one's place is not zero. After one hundred, "and" is used to connect the hundreds place to the tens and one's place. After one...
In Germany blanks (more rarely—hyphens) are used: XXX XX XX XXX-XX-XX 00 49 (XX XX) XX XX XX (0 XX XX) X XX 36 In Bulgaria a telephone number is always written in three two-digit groups: XX-XX-XX 37 A special case is Italy and Holland where telephone numbers are often writt...