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GRAMMAR 3

ORDINAL NUMBERS
• We use ordinal numbers to tell the dates.
• There are two ways of giving the date in English.
Month + Day: January 25 – January the twenty fifth
Day + Month: 25th January – The twenty fifth of January
• Years are normally divided into two parts; the first two digits and the last two digits.
2016 is divided into 20 and 16 so we say twenty seventeen.
1984 = nineteen eighty-four 1990 = nineteen ninety LEARN STEP BY STEP
2012 = twenty twelve - two thousand (and) twelve
2021 = twenty twenty-one – two thousand (and) twenty-one
• We ask: What date is it today? / What is the date today? / What is the date?
We normally add a "th" to the end of a cardinal number to make it an ordinal number, but there are some
exceptions.
st
1 st first 11 eleventh 21 twenty-first
th
2 nd second 12th twelfth 22nd twenty-second
3rd third 13th thirteenth 23rd twenty-third
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 24th twenty-fourth

5th fifth 15th fifteenth 25th twenty-fifth
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 26th twenty-sixth
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 27th twenty-seventh
8th eighth 18th eighteenth 28th twenty-eighth
9th ninth 19th nineteenth 29th twenty-ninth
10th tenth 20th twentieth 30th thirtieth

31st thirty-first

EXERCISES

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Write the dates in two ways.

1. 1 August 2. 27 September 3. 22 April
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4. 5 December 5. 14 June 6. 27 August
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