1. Số đếm a. Khi đọc các số như 100; 1,000; 1,000,000 ta thêm “a” vào trước các từ “hundred”, “thousand”, “million”, chứ không thêm “one” Ví dụ:
Ví dụ:
- 100: a hundred,
- 1000: a thousand
- …………
- 10: a hundred and one
- 350: three hundred and fifty
- 529: five hundred and twenty-nine
- 2,49: two thousand, four hundred and ninety-one
- 7,512 seven thousand, five hundred and twelve
- 27,403 twenty-seven thousand, four hundred and three
- Six hundred men
- Ten thousand pounds
- Hundreds of people
- Six of the blue ones
- 10.92 ten point nine two.
- 8.04 eight point nought for
- 01425 365 7089 oh one four two five, three six five, seven oh nine eight
- 0609 655 400 oh six oh nine, six double five, four double oh
- 14o fourteen degrees
- 0o zero
- -12o minus twelve (degree) / twelve (degree) below zero
Ví dụ:
- 1764 seventeen sixty-four
- 1890 eighteen ninety
- 1900 nineteen hundred
- 1907 nineteen oh seven
- 2000 two thousand
- 2007 two thousand and seven
- 22 May May the twenty-second: the twenty-second of May/ May twenty-second
- 13 January: January the thirteenth/ the thirteenth of January/ January thirteenth
- 30 January: January the thirtieth/ the thirtieth of January/ January thirtieth
- ½ a half
- ¼ a quarter
- a fourth
- ¾ three quarters
- three fourths ( các đọc thông dụng )
- 1% one percent
- 50% fifty percent
- 67.3% sixty-seven point three percent