1. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form A John Langan

2. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers Let’s take a look at three helpful rules for using

3. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers Rule 1: Spell out numbers that take no more than two words. Otherwise, use the numbers themselves. She has two lovers. He has 452 pairs of galoshes.

4. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers Rule 2: Be consistent when you use a series of numbers. If some numbers in a sentence or paragraph require more than two words, then use numbers for the others, too. Here’s an example:

5. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers Sam ordered 98 hamburgers, 123 orders of fries, and 3 salads for his son’s soccer team.

6. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Numbers Rule 3: Use numbers to show dates, times, addresses, percentages, and parts of a book. On May 7 at 12:00, I read 33 percent of Chapter 1, stopping at page 13. But: Spell out numbers before o’clock, as in “six o’clock.”

7. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Abbreviations Abbreviations are great for notes, but you should mostly avoid them in formal writing. Let’s take a look at four groups of abbreviations that are acceptable in compositions....

8. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Acceptable Abbreviations 1. Mr., Mrs., Ms., Jr., Sr., and Dr. when used with proper names: Mr. Burns Mrs. Simpson Dr. Riviera Ned Flanders, Jr.

9. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Acceptable Abbreviations 2. Time references: A.M. or a.m. P.M. or p.m. B.C., A.D.

10. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Acceptable Abbreviations 3. Initials in a person’s name: M. Emmett Walsh Rufus T. Firefly P.D.Q. Bach

11. Numbers and Abbreviations Sentence Skills, Form A, 7E©2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Acceptable Abbreviations 4. Organizations, technical words, and company names known primarily by their initials: NAACP CNN FDA