Grammar and Language Workbook

Unit 12, Punctuation 259

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Mechanics

Lesson 84

Writing Numbers I

In charts and tables always write numbers as figures. However, in sentences

numbers are sometimes spelled out and sometimes written as numerals.

Spell out numbers that can be written in one or two words.

There are twenty-two days until my birthday.

Use numerals for numbers of more than two words.

I think the answer is 333.

Spell out any number that begins a sentence, or reword the sentence.

Five thousand two hundredpeople watched the eclipse from the park.

Write a very large number as a numeral followed by million or billion.

The sun is about 93 millionmiles from Earth.

Exercise 1 Write the correct form of the number in each sentence. Write C if the

sentence is correct.

thirteen Buffalo has won 13 games so far this year.

C 1. Tickets to the game cost six dollars.

C 2. The population of Avon is about four thousand.

Fourteen thousand 3. 14,000 people signed the petition.

(^608) 4. Last year the shelter found homes for six hundred eight cats.
four 5. The blizzard dumped 4 feet of snow on our town.
C 6. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.
C 7. The planet Saturn is about 900 million miles from the sun.
C 8. Crater Lake in Oregon is more than 1,950 feet deep.
three 9. I’ve seen that movie 3 times.
C 10. In 1990 this country imported about 2 million cars from Japan.
C 11. The Grand Canyon is about one mile deep.