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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

Questions

  1. 1.234
    • one point two three four
  2. 1,628
    • one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight
  3. 10
    • ten
  4. 19
    • nineteen
  5. 30
    • thirty
  6. 3.14
    • three point one four
  7. 5
    • five
  8. 9
    • nine
  9. 100
    • one hundred
    • a hundred
  10. 8
    • eight
  11. 60
    • sixty
  12. 2.5
    • two point five
    • two and a half
  13. 7
    • seven
  14. 13
    • thirteen
  15. 17
    • seventeen
  16. 18
    • eighteen
  17. 28
    • twenty-eight
  18. 24
    • twenty-four
  19. 26
    • twenty-six
  20. 22
    • twenty-two