Ordinal phrases

1. What are ordinal phrases?
2. What are the examples of ordinals?
3. What are some sayings with ordinal numbers?

What are ordinal phrases?

1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").

What are the examples of ordinals?

The adjective terms which are used to denote the order of something/someone are 1st – First, 2nd-Second, 3rd-Third, 4th-Fourth, 5th-Fifth, 6th-Sixth, and so on. All these terms represent the ordinal numbers. Whereas the counting numbers are called cardinal numbers, such as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

What are some sayings with ordinal numbers?

1st :first come first served : those who are first to arrive will be the first . 3rd/5th wheel : someone who has no role , who is not needed . Please log in to save your progress.