![]() Unfortunately we are not reconstructing the English language therefore if you wish to be understood it is advisable that you conform to common usage and apply an 'a' or 'one' before large numbers. So when the addition of a numerical quantifier such as 'a' or 'one' is redundant it's use the sentence should be entirely optional. I have five books and each book has hundred pages. However that sound completely ridiculous. I have a five books and each book has one five pages, So from point of constructing a logical language it could be proposed that we say, I have a ten books and each book has one ten pages. If this were true then it follows that it would be awkward to say, Would be impossible instead we would say, If we did not have these special names for the tens then saying, Thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,Įleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, This oddity of English language occurs because these special number all have specific names: However, from a grammatical point of view saying,Īll large numbers: a thousand, a million, a milliard, etc require an 'a' or the name of one of the following special numbers or combinations of them to precede it: 1-20,30,40,50,60,70,80, and 90. To an English learner they may all appear correct from a logical point of view, with the second and third differing by specificity since they contain modifying quantifiers. Or precisely to mean that the book has somewhere between 100-999 pages. Which would be used either idiomatically to mean However, you can use the plural form of the quantity without "a" or "one" for indefinite quantities to express an order of magnitude: Is wrong in both American and British English. In both American and British English, you need to qualify the number with "a" or "one" when stating an exactitude, for example This bicycle cost two thousand, one hundred and thirty seven pounds. $2137, whereas in British English one would preferentially use the form Would be a valid American English number, i.e. This bicycle cost two thousand, one hundred thirty seven dollars 100 Days is a 1991 Indian Hindi -language psychological thriller film, starring Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Moon Moon Sen and Javed Jaffrey. In American English, one would more typically sayĪdditionally there are other differences between how numbers are stated in British versus American English that often cause confusion for new learners: *For running groups and corporate teams, the winners will be decided on the basis of the total points earned by the respective team.Part of the answer to this depends on whether you are learning the American versus British English variant.So if any member of the team ran on each day of the event, the total will be 100. Days run will not be a sum of days run by each member, but simply a count of how many days out of the 100 any member of the team ran. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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