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THE NUMERAL 5.1 Numerals are of two kinds: the cardinal numerals (indicating “how many”) and the ordinal numerals (indicating the order in a series), e.g. There were nineteen students attending the class yesterday morning (cardinal numeral) He read it more fluently the second time. (ordinal numeral) 5.2 Examples of the cardinal numerals with the corresponding ordinal numeral are given below: 1 one first 1st 2 two second 2nd 3 three third 3rd 4 four fourth 4th 5 five fifth 5th 8 eight eighth 8th 9 nine ninth 9th 12 twelve twelfth 12th 15 fifteen fifteenth 15th 19 nineteen nineteenth 19th 20 twenty twentieth 20th 30 thirty thirtieth 30th 40 forty fortieth 40th 50 fifty fiftieth 50th 61 sixty-one sixty-first 61st 72 seventy-two seventy-second 72nd 83 eighty-three eighty-third 83rd 100 hundred hundredth 100th 499 four hundred four hundred and 499th and ninety-nine ninety-ninth 1,000 thousand thousandth 1,000th 3,876 three thousand three thousand 3,876th Eight hundred Eight hundred and seventy-six and seventy-sixth 1,000,000 million millionth 1,000,000th Note 1) Take care of the spelling of fifteen, forty, fifty. Note 2) Hundred, thousand, million and billion generally can’t take the plural form when multiplied (e.g. 7,831,475—seven million eight hundred thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-five). But the plural form is used when no numeral precedes or when several or some is used,