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Can you wrte Three thousand, eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents in number please?

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In a recent lesson, I discovered that many of my students did not know how to read numbers aloud, especially long numbers. Numbers are a basic part of the language and it can sometimes be very important to say them clearly!

One important thing to remember is that we say and after hundreds, before the tens (20, 30, etc) or units (1, 2, etc):

319: three hundred and nineteen

507: five hundred and seven

This is also true when the word hundred occurs in longer numbers:

140, 000: a hundred and forty thousand

325, 250: three hundred and twenty five thousand, two hundred and fifty

We also say it in numbers over 1,000 where there are no hundreds but there are tens or units:

1, 056: one thousand and fifty six

The second important thing is that we do not put an ‘s’ on hundred, thousand or million, even when the number is more than 1.

There were five thousand people at the show.

Another common learner error is to use of after numbers. You should not say of before the things you are counting:

There are around a hundred and fifty fish in the pond.

There are around a hundred and fifty of fish in the pond.