Example sentences for: ordinal

How can you use “ordinal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sir Randolph Quirk, the most famous British grammarian, says that the ordinal question can be obliquely asked in English like this: How many presidents were there before Bill Clinton?

  • To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.

  • Then, what about using How manieth/ How manyeth for an answer that contains an ordinal number like fifth, tenth, fifteenth?

  • This ordinal transformation was performed in order to calculate the kappa statistic.

  • What he asked me was, How can we ask a question in English that elicits an ordinal number as answer?


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