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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Grammar

when do you use 10 or ten?
  

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It depends which looks best. It's up to you. In general, you dont use 10 at the beginning of a sentence: 10 people died.

  • It depends which looks best.
  • It's up to you.
  • In general, you dont use 10 at the beginning of a sentence: 10 people died.
  • Ten people died.
  • It's not generally used in non-technical articles either.
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It depends which looks best. It's up to you.
In general, you dont use 10 at the beginning of a sentence:
10 people died. Ten people died.
It's not generally used in non-technical articles either. "Ten" is a very short word, so often there is no need to write it in figures, "10".

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