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Nov 21, 2009 · Hi everyone, I'am doing a composition and I have always the same doubt. Which preposition I have to use for cardinal points? - In the east coast of the island... - On the east coast of the island... - On the North coast lies the sleepy fishing village... - In the North coast lies the...
Oct 22, 2007 · I stumbled upon a thread disscussing the names of the cardinal directions in various languages and was just about to give my Swedish input when I realized that the situation is rather dubious in Swedish, or, at least that appears to be the case for me. I remember being over this with myself in...
Aug 11, 2014 · capitalization of cardinal directions capitalising north-west, north-east etc? and this thread on hyphenation: cardinal points: hyphen, space or closed? They are generally fused in AmE. BrE allows for this, as well as the hyphenated and spaced versions. I suspect that the hyphenated version is the most common.
Jul 7, 2018 · The exception might be if the teacher is worried that the student might not understand the numbers -- if the student is a language learners, for instance. In that case the teacher might say the cardinal forms the second time to be sure that the student understands. (The vowel in '-five' is clearer than the vowel in '-fifth'.)
Jun 11, 2014 · Anyway, another hypothetical scenario where I may wish to use the term for this type of number is when studying languages and preparing vocabulary lists. If I prepare a vocabulary list with the translations of the numbers "one, two, three..." in the language in question, I'd give the list the title "cardinal numbers".
Oct 30, 2017 · The names of the cardinal directions remain stubbornly Greek, while the names of the winds blowing from the compass points are clearly Romance, either Genoese or Venetian (mostly Venetian). Thus, the northerly wind is <<Τραμουντάνα>> [tramun'dana] (fem.) < Ven. Tramontana.
Dec 12, 2007 · Cardinal means of primary importance, i.e. these are the main obligations, the most important obligations ...
Jan 10, 2013 · How could it be a quantifier? Ordinal numbers don't affect the quantity of the nouns they modify. I think maybe the confusion is that cardinal numbers act like determiners in English. It feels more like an adjective to me; having more than one determiner on a noun seems strange (though I guess there are phrases like "the one time I stayed home").
Dec 1, 2015 · This seems a really trivial question, but I've had this nagging thought in the back of my head. Many years ago, when I was first taught what is known to academics as cardinal numerals (or just 'numbers') in English, I'm sure the almighty teacher said clearly you write "twenty-one" or "ninety-nine", not "twenty one" or "ninety nine".
Jun 17, 2012 · cardinal number 1-10. Thread starter aem; Start date Jun 17, 2012; A. aem New Member. English Jun 17, 2012 ...
