2017年成人高考专升本英语复习资料-词汇:数词2
5.基数词可以和其他词一起构成合成形容词,在句子中作定语。
A one-month-old baby can recognize its mother by smell.
This eleven-month-old baby can speak a few words.
(The baby is eleven months old.)
The teacher asked us to write a four-thousand-word essay as our homework.
(There are four thousand words in the essay.)
二、序数词及其主要用法
表示顺序的词称为序数词。如first, second, third, fourth, ninth, twenty-first, forty-fifth等。
序数词可以用来表示日期和世纪。May the first / the first of May (5.1) , August the eighth / the eighth of August (8.8) , the twentieth century, the twenty-first century
序数词在句子中前面一般加the
The first of October is our National Day.
She was the third to arrive.
序数词在句子中前面加不定冠词,表示“再一”又一“。
They'll have to do it a second time.
Shall I ask him a third time?
When he sat down , a fourth man rose to ask.