Questions about ordinal numbers.
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Should ordinal indicators be inline?
Recently, I received a few corrections on my research article. One of them was that the ordinal indicators like 'th', 'rd', etc., should be inline with the number and not as a superscript. For ...
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Ordinal 3: 3rd vs 3d [closed]
What is the most correct form for 3 in ordinal form: 3rd or 3d?
I know both are valid. But I heard that 3rd is something like spoken form and it's grammatically correct to use 3d.
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1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour… But how to say “zero”-th hour?
E.g. in School we have 5-7 or 8 hours every day (Math, History, Biology, Chemistry, English etc.).
The first hour starts at 8:00 A.M.
But every Thursday we have an hour that stars at 7:10 A.M.
In ...
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Returning for the nth time
Suppose I went to the supermarket three times. Is my third trip considered my "second time returning there" or my "third time returning there?" Thanks. (I know this question sounds silly, but English ...
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Is “-th” still a productive suffix in English?
The main question here is whether using -(e)th to create ordinals out of cardinals1 is still considered a productive suffix in English. Is it?
If so, then does it matter whether we are in a formal ...
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How would you phrase questions that require an “interrogative ordinal” which is absent in English? [duplicate]
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
How to phrase an asking sentence that must be answered with an ordinal number?
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“20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” [closed]
When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript?
20th century
20th century
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What is the question for which the answer is “This is my third coffee today”? [duplicate]
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How manyth son ...
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What will be the question for “he is my second son” [duplicate]
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How do you convert the sentence “George Washington was the first ...
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How do you convert the sentence “George Washington was the first president.” to a question? [duplicate]
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How do you convert the sentence:
George Washington was the ...
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How manyth son to your father? [duplicate]
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I know ...
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How to frame a question to get answer about the turn that somebody has taken in doing something? [duplicate]
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How to ask a question to get a cardinal number answer
I want to ...
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How can I ask a question with the answer “I'm eating the fourth apple”? [duplicate]
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How to ask ...
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Asking question about position of a person in a list [duplicate]
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In my ...
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Interrogative form of a sentence [duplicate]
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Neil ...
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How to ask “nth time” of something [duplicate]
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If the ...
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Why doesn't “ninth” have an “e”, like “ninety”?
Is it just because "ninth" has only one syllable? That wouldn't make sense, though, because saying "NINE-ith" wouldn't be worse than saying "NINE-e-tee". If we were used to "nineth", we would have ...
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What is the correct way to express the ordinal form of a large number?
If I want to express...
The 1114th person
...with the number in words, would it be best to do...
The one thousand, one hundred and fourteenth person
...or hyphenated...
The ...
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Adjective for not first but either second, third, fourth, etc
What is an adjective for something that is not first but either second, third, fourth, etc? We don't need to know what position it is at; the only thing that matters is that it's not the first one.
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How will I ask this particular question? [duplicate]
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Is there a straightforward word for “The thing in between first and second”?
Sometimes when writing I find myself looking for a word to describe something in the “³⁄₂th” place — exactly between first and second. I would like to ask, does there exist an easy expression for ...
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How do you say this in English? [duplicate]
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It ...
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How to ask a question to get an ordinal number answer [duplicate]
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Given that I want to know ...
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Framing a question to which you reply with “I am the third born in my family” [duplicate]
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would it be if i asked what is your relative position terms of birth order in your family
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How do you frame a question for this situation? [duplicate]
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Let me explain the scenario.
Say you have 'n' number of siblings (brothers/sisters) in your family,i.e your parents have n+1 children.A random person ...
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How should I phrase a question that must be answered with an ordinal number (e.g., the third prime)?
I want to make a question having an answer as follows:
5 is the third prime number.
The bold part is the answer. How to phrase the question?
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Framing a question to which the answer is an ordinal number [duplicate]
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I am the third daughter of my parents.
How should a question ...
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What method of counting puts Twelfth Night on January 6th?
I know English has (or at least had) some strange usages of eve and night, but I still can’t figure out how December 25th and 12 can be combined to come up with January 6th.
(This stems from my ...
