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Grammar for Grownups Quiz #55

Numbers Are Important

Numbers are important, especially at the beginning of the year. (Write 100 times: the year is 2010!) Here are some sentences to quiz your usage of numbers in writing. Choose the one you think is right before you check the answers.

1. (Nine / 9) of my friends are joining me for a New Year's party. I invited (25 / twenty-five).

2. I'm told that about (three million dollars / $3 million / $3,000,000) will be spent on fireworks in town.

3. I'm saving for my party on (February 14 / February 14th); so save the (14 /14th), my friends.

4. For fun, the theme is the era of the (1940's / 1940s); try styling a (1940's / 1940s) pageboy hairdo.

5. The party begins at (7:30 / seven-thirty) (P.M. / p.m. / pm). So leave the house by (7:00 / seven o'clock).

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