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Right I shall get my bachelor's degree next year.

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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.
Right 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.

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Right On October 13, 1881, I was born at 362 Adams
Street. See page 916 of our family Bible.

150. The number of a day following the name of a
month should usually not be followed by th, st, nd, d, or
rd.

Right: The convention lasted from October 26 to November 3.

2

151. Ordinal numbers designating days of a month
may be either spelled out or represented by figures.

Right: The thirteenth of May fell on Friday.
Right: The 13th of May fell on Friday.

Ordinal numbers designating pages or divisions of a
book or document are governed by Rules 164–167.

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

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541 West Sixty-second Street
New York City

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.
Right: He subscribed $342 to the fund.

Sums of
money:
The sign $
improper
for sums
less than
a dollar

.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
space, use figures ordinarily for all, putting the sign
before all numbers representing dollars. (But see Rule
160.).

Right: My room costs $3 a week and my board $4.50;
my contribution to the church is 30 cents; my inciden-
tal expenses range from $9.35 to $12.50 a month.

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.
Right: It sold for eighteen hundred dollars.
Right: His fortune amounts to $72,500.

160. But a sum standing first in a sentence which
follows a terminal period,1 or begins a composition or a
direct quotation, should in no case be represented by
figures. (Cf. Rule 167.)

BAD: $36.50 was the price.

Right Thirty-six dollars and fifty cents was the price.

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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
The Origin of Species.

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.

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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,
with secret misgivings, the marriage of the lovely
Muriel Fitzduncan to Percival Castorbridge.

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
has 900 students.

Right: The college is twenty-five miles from Columbus
and has nine hundred students. [136, 137.]
WRONG: In this city there are four hundred and thirty-
four saloons to three hundred and eighty-five thousand,
one hundred and ninety-two people.

Right: In this city there are 434 saloons to 385,192
people.

beginning a sentence

167. But a number standing first in a sentence which Numbers
follows a terminal period,1 or begins a composition or a
direct quotation, 2 should in every case be spelled out.
(Cf. Rule 160.)

BAD: The amount is very great, and the force was large.
31,200 prisoners have been paroled.

Right: The amount is very great, and the force was
large. Thirty-one thousand, two hundred prisoners
have been paroled. [136, 137.]

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