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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Numbers--> :-(

I have a problem with numbers, when you write XXXX e.g. 2010 with which numbers would you say something like twenty hundred and ten and with which ones would you say someting similar to two thousand and ten?? There is a rule that I have already forgotten...

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For the number 2010, I would expect people to say "two thousand (and) ten" when referring to an amount of something. If 2010 is a year or a house number, for example, you might also hear "twenty ten". I would say that the word hundred is used instead of thousand only when the number is less than two thousand, and particularly when the number ends with '00'.

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  • For the number 2010, I would expect people to say "two thousand (and) ten" when referring to an amount of something.
  • If 2010 is a year or a house number, for example, you might also hear "twenty ten".
  • I would say that the word hundred is used instead of thousand only when the number is less than two thousand, and particularly when the number ends with '00'.
  • For example: 1910 = one thousand nine hundred (and) ten -OR- nineteen ten -OR- nineteen hundred (and) ten 1400 = one thousand four hundred -OR- fourteen hundred
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For the number 2010, I would expect people to say "two thousand (and) ten" when referring to an amount of something.
If 2010 is a year or a house number, for example, you might also hear "twenty ten".

I would say that the word hundred is used instead of thousand only when the number is less than two thousand, and particularly when the number ends with '00'. For example:
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Only talk in hundreds when the hundreds are not divisible by 10.

7400 --> Seventy four hundred.
3000 --> Three thousand (not thirty hundred).
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Bokeh, you're probably right, thanks to both! Now I learnt the trick!
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