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Thepromisedland Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

how to express these positions?

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

We know the position of 1 is the first (one) , the position of 2 is the second(one),and so on.

9 is the last one, how to say 8? is it last two?

thx
  

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penultimate

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second from the last.
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Nona The Britpenultimate
Exactly. Or colloquially in many cases 'the last but one'.

Cheers
CB
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Hi,

Or 'next to last'.

Clive
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

how to say 7 and 6?
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Hi,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 how to say 7 and 6?

The simplest way is just to say 'the seventh and sixth positions'.
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CliveHi,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 how to say 7 and 6?

The simplest way is just to say 'the seventh and sixth positions'.
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We don't have these words, no, apart from for the penultimate or last but one position.
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Picky me...! There's also "antepenultimate."
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Hi,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 how to say 7 and 6?


in many languages there is a very natural, frequently used way to express the position relative to the last. If you say He was seventh in a race, for example, you don't know how many there were behind him. One
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