Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading &c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:

a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index. b) The United States ranked the 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index. I've seen a) in the news, however, it is like I've learned the definite article ('the') is required before …

2015年4月10日 · Ground floor – First floor: In British English, the floor of a building which is level with the ground is called the ground floor. The floor above it is called the first floor, the floor abov...

Is it grammatically correct to sequence paragraphs using First, Second, Third, and Finally? If not, is there a good word that replaces Finally? Starting a paragraph with Final doesn't sound corre...

In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since then in the Romance languages. I don't know when it was adopted in English. Here is a ...

I just realized that I’ve never needed to use 31th or 31st in my four years English study. So which one is correct, and what about other alternatives? 31th or 31st 101th or 101st 1001th or 1...

2014年8月28日 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date

2010年12月9日 · By most definitions, the date changes at midnight. That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00. That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem.

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2021年11月28日 · "Place getter" means achieving first, second or third place, though that is a relatively informal term. Depending on the context, it might be better to use the verb "placed"; someth