Spell - Numbers

commas

Numbers in English use commas to seperate every three digits (e.g. 1,000,000 is one million).

full-stop

A full stop, called a decimal point, is used to seperate numbers greater than one from numbers smaller than one. (e.g. 1.5 is one point five or one and a half).

Numbers after the decimal point are read one at a time. (e.g. 3.1415 is read three point one four one five).

hyphen

When writing the numbers 21 to 29, 31 to 39, 41 to 49, etc., you must use a hyphen.

22	twenty-two
89	eighty-nine
47	forty-seven

and

British English always puts the word and between hunderd/thousand/million and numbers below one hundred.

120	one hundred and twenty
6,257	six thousand two hundred and fifty-seven

Bigger Number Words

100	one hundred
1,000	one thousand
10,000	ten thousand
100,000	one hundred thousand
1,000,000	one million
1,000,000,000	one billion
1,000,000,000,000	one trillion

Spell each of the numbers given.

Be careful with the numbers between 20 and 100. They have a hyphen between the tens and the ones.

Example:

1. 21
   twenty-one


2. 22
   twenty-two


3. 23
   twenty-three