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Examples: The ship is lyingi Jarl her up the quay. — I 
have nothing further to report. The person n care st the door. — 
Ile is the next person. The Continental mail arrives later. The 
latest cable news is. — The latter part of the day. The last 
mail hrought us . . . I am older than you. St. Stephan's is the 
oldest church in Vienna. —• Arthur is my elder brother. 1 have 
four brothers and he is the eldest. 
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The German ebenfo ... wie in comparative sentences is 
translated: as . . . as, nid)t fo Wie not so .. . as. olS after the com 
parative is than. —— je . . . befto = the. 
Examples: This season’s crop is as good as last year’s. 
The quality is not so fine as the formen lots. Prices are lower 
than they have been for years. 
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Little ean only be used attributively, small both as attribute 
or predicate; as A little parcel. A small parcel or Ihe parcel is 
small. 
1 One 
2 two 
3 three 
4 four 
5 five 
6 six 
7.seren 
8 eight 
9 nine 
10 ten 
Cardinal Numbers. 
11 eleven 
12 tivelve 
13 thirteen 
14 fourteen 
16 fifteen 
16 sixteen 
■17 seventeen 
18 eighteen 
19 nineteen 
20 twenty 
21 twcniy-one 
22 twenty-two 
30 thirty 
40 forty 
60 fifty 
60 sixty 
70 seventy 
80 eighty 
90 ninety 
100 one (a) hundred 
The tens and units are joined by a hyphon: Thirty-six. 
Smaller numbers following hundred and thousand (not mil- 
Hon) must be connected by and: two hundred and forty-one, one 
thousand and three. 
As numeral adjectives hundred, thousand and million remain 
unaltered: Six hundred milesfive million pounds; but as a noun 
they form a plural by adding -s: Hundreds of bales, several thou- 
sands, five miIlions of pounds. 
A is used before hundred, thousand and million in round 
numbers: IHs income amounts to a hundred pounds (beträgt tpnibert 
‘Brutib) a year. One is used when followed by smaller numbers: 
The vessel carries one thousand five hundred and ten tons. 
Note: The year nineteen 'hundred and eighteen (1918).