Right I shall get my bachelor's degree next year. : BAD: He is a Ph.D. from Jena. Right: He is a doctor of philosophy from Jena. 148. The title Esq. is a proper substitute for Mr. When Esq. follows a name, no title should precede the name. WRONG Mr. Ralph Williams Esq. Use of the title Esq. Dates, and house numbers THE REPRESENTATION OF NUMBERS1 149. Do not spell out (1) cardinal numbers desigfolios etc., nating dates, (2) cardinal numbers designating the pages or divisions (ie., parts, chapters, paragraphs, sections, rules, etc.) of a book or a document, or (3) the street numbers of houses. Omission of th, st etc. Street numbers WRONG: On October thirteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, I was born at three hundred and sixtytwo Adams Street. See page nine hundred and sixteen of our family Bible. : Right On October 13, 1881, I was born at 362 Adams 150. The number of a day following the name of a Right: The convention lasted from October 26 to November 3. 2 151. Ordinal numbers designating days of a month Right: The thirteenth of May fell on Friday. Ordinal numbers designating pages or divisions of a 152. In connected discourse, in an address in a letter, and on an envelope, a street number not larger than one hundred should be spelled out. 1 See Exercise 677. 2 See the Grammatical Vocabulary, pp. 360 ff. Right: I live on Thirty-sixth Street. [191, 200.] Right Professor James Ludington : 541 West Sixty-second Street New York 153. In designating a sum of United States money in connected discourse, apply the following rules (154-160): 154. Do not use the sign $ for sums less than one dollar. WRONG: It costs $0.20. Right: It costs twenty cents. 155. Do not write .00. WRONG: He subscribed $342.00 to the fund. Sums of .00 never to be used sums 156. For a sum amounting to a number of dollars and Fractional a number of cents, use the sign $ and figures ordinarily. (But see Rule 160.) Right: It costs $3.18. sums: Frequent 157. If several sums are mentioned within a short Even Right: My room costs $3 a week and my board $4.50; 158. In case of an isolated mention of a sum in cents, Isolated: spell out the number. Right: The price is ninety cents. 159. In case of an isolated mention of a sum in dollars without a fraction, spell out a number expressed in one or two words, such as three, sixteen, two hundred, six thousand, one million; for other numbers, such as A sum in cents A sum in dollars Sum standing first in sentence Age Hours of the day etc. 102, 350, 1130, 1,500,000, use the sign $ and figures, as a rule. Right: He contributed twenty thousand dollars. 160. But a sum standing first in a sentence which BAD: $36.50 was the price. Right Thirty-six dollars and fifty cents was the price. : 161. In connected discourse, a number designating the age of a person or thing should be spelled out, unless such numbers occur frequently within a short space. Right: He is sixty years old. Right: When I was ten years old, I enjoyed reading 162. In connected discourse, a number designating an hour of the day should be spelled out, unless such numbers occur frequently within a short space. Right Meet me at three o'clock. : Right: I think it was about twenty minutes after six when she emitted that prodigious meow. Ten-thirty 163. Numbers of the form ten-thirty, eleven-fifteen, etc., occurring in connected discourse are governed by Rule 162. These forms are incongruous in any but a very matter-of-fact context. (Cf. Rule 143j.) BAD: On the next day, about 12:30, I saw, with secret misgivings, the marriage of the lovely Muriel Fitzduncan to Percival Castorbridge. 1 That is, a period marking the close of a sentence, as distinguished from one designating an abbreviation. 2 See the Grammatical Vocabulary, pp. 360 ff. Right: On the next day, about half after twelve, I saw, 164. In representing, in connected discourse, numbers Numbers other than those treated above, apply the following rules in general: (165-167). 165. In case several numbers are men- Frequent tioned in a short space, use figures for all, as a rule. See for example the text of Rules 565-570, where numbers occur frequently, and representation of them by words would inconvenience the reader. 166. If the Not frenumbers to be represented are not frequent, spell out quent numbers that may be expressed in one or two words, such as eighteen, ninety-seven, two hundred, eighteen hundred, twenty thousand, one million, fifty million; as a rule, use figures for those that require three or more words, such as 108, 233, 1250, 18,231, 1,500,230. WRONG: The college is 25 miles from Columbus and Right: The college is twenty-five miles from Columbus Right: In this city there are 434 saloons to 385,192 beginning a sentence 167. But a number standing first in a sentence which Numbers BAD: The amount is very great, and the force was large. Right: The amount is very great, and the force was |