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Is it improper English to read the number 1100 as "eleven hundred"?
If bins have 450, 1,100, 2,000, and 5,700 items, they might be read as "four hundred fifty, eleven hundred, two thousand, and fifty-seven hundred". If, however, the quantities had been 453, 1,100, 2,017, and 5,706, then they should be read as "four hundred fifty-three, one thousand one hundred, two thousand seventeen, and five thousand seven ...
Using hundreds to express thousands: why, where, when?
2017年5月30日 · It's common for quantities between 1100 and 1900 but very rare for quantities over 2000, for instance "thirty one hundred" for 3100. One reason for its use, to me, is when making comparisons between quantities just below and just above the one thousand mark.
Is it proper grammar to refer to four digit number in hundreds?
2017年4月13日 · Sometimes you will hear people refer to four digit numbers in terms of hundreds. For example, sometimes people will say fifteen hundred when talking about the number 1500.
numbers - How to say the total amount? - English Language
2012年4月23日 · I'm not sure if the saying of the total amount USD 23,428.32 is correct below (esp. the 'cent' part after the dot): Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and thirt...
"Dear Sir or Madam" versus "To whom it may concern"
When is it appropriate to use the terms Dear Sir or Madam and To whom it may concern?The rules I was taught state that Dear Sir or Madam should be used when you're writing a letter to a person about something that person has direct involvement in (e.g. returning a defective product to a customer service department).
What does : ca. 1828 mean? ca. before a date? [closed]
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What are the rules for pronunciation of years in English?
2011年8月1日 · There are no rules, only loose conventions, formed for brevity, convenience and ease of mental parsing. The convention has been modified for the years 2000-2009 (two thousand and nine), just as it has for 1000-1009, probably for the reason Nav mentions - it just parses nicely that way to an English speaker.
Commas in plurals of numbers (1000s vs. 1,000s) in web writing
2016年10月28日 · and, since your case isn’t one of the listed exceptions, it looks like they specify that you should use the comma. However, I noticed that paragraph 12.9(l), “Measurement and time” / “Percentage” (on page 287) says you can use either “a 1,100-percent increase” or “an 1100-percent increase.” They don’t explain this; I ...
writing style - Correct form for a page range? - English Language ...
2014年10月2日 · For ranges starting with a page number of 1 through 100 (or multiples of 100), use all digits of the end-range number: 3–10, 71–72, 96–117, 100–104, 1100–1113 For ranges starting with a page number of 101 through 109, 201 through 209, and so on, use only the changed part of the end-range number: 101–8, 1103–4
When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted?
I know that it is common to write the number 'ten thousand' as a numeral with a comma delimiting the 10 and the 000 like so: 10, 000 However, I have never seen a comma used for numbers less than 1...