The rules for using numbers in English are simple and clear. So, why do so many students make mistakes with them? Study the following pages and stop making the same mistakes as everyone else.
The single most common mistake and the easiest rule to understand is looked at in When to write numbers as words or digits.
The next page looks at another very common mistake. Using, or rather not using, hyphens with Numbers as adjectives. The use of hyphens is looked at again in Hyphenate numbers between 21 and 99.
More about numbers and punctuation in Possessive compound nouns.
Then three pages looking at zero, none and one: None is not singular. Zero Is plural, Numbers greater than one use a plural noun, and One and ones as pronouns.
Then another mistake from the list of The Most Common Mistakes Students Make, Once not one time. This mini course is nearing its end. Using number one or the first is not a very common mistake, but, but, but a very, very, very common mistake is looked at in Saying and writing dates.
Our look at mistakes with numbers in English ends with a look at two pairs of words that are often confused: Amount or Number and Forth or Fourth.
