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English Fractional Numerals

A decimal fraction is a number written in base 10 using the decimal point to separate the whole number part from the fractional part.

For example: 3.75 is a decimal fraction where 3 is the whole number part and .75 is the fractional part.

Ordinal numerals are used to express the order

or sequence of things, such as first, second, third, etc.

In English, the ordinal numerals are generally formed

by adding the suffix -th to the cardinal numeral (except for

first , which has its own unique form).

In English, cardinal numerals can be formed using both simple and compound forms:Simple cardinal numerals:

are formed by using a single word to represent a number.

Examples include one, two, three, and so on.
Compound cardinal numerals: are formed by combining two or more simple numerals to create a new number.

In linguistics, the term numeral refers to a word or phrase

that represents a number or quantity.

Numerals can be used as a part of speech in a sentence,

just like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

In English, there are two types of numerals: cardinal and ordinal.

Cardinal numerals represent a quantity or number, such as one, two, three, etc.

Ordinal numerals represent the order of things, such as

Some Adjectives can be turned into nouns and used as nouns.

They are called Substantivized Adjectives.

Substantivized adjectives, also known as nominalized adjectives.

They are adjectives that have been turned into nouns by adding suffixes such as:

-ness, -ity, or -ism.