2022年11月7日 · Which ones are correct and appropriate for academic and formal writing? 1.a) The country's rank dropped from 3 to 5. 1.b) The country's rank is 3. 2.a) The country's rank dropped from 3rd to 5th. ...

You can't say "I got a 2:1 from Harvard" because American Universities don't classify degrees in the same way. Instead, you use the native description, supplemented by an explanation in English. I graduated with distinction, which put me in the top 10% of my class. At university I was placed first out of my class of 150 students.

2018年3月25日 · Top of the hour: "The beginning of any or each of the twenty-four divisions of the day; noon, 1:00, 2:00, etc.: news is broadcast at the top of the hour." (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition)

2013年5月16日 · I was talking to my friend the other day about the airport bus timings, I was supposed to say Buses are due at 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 etc. (pattern like this the whole day between say 5 am to 11...

2020年5月4日 · All three expressions (on top, on the top, and at the top) are grammatical, with different meanings. None of them collocate with become. What you mean, I think, is either will come out on top or will get to the top.

2015年5月20日 · Critics rated the movie 3 stars out of four (he "ranked" the movie 3 stars out of four would not sound right). The nuance between the two words is that when you 'rank' something, you give it a rank compared to other things in the same set (ranked 1st out of 30 students, or the top-ranked state for auto insurance).

2017年12月16日 · Of the top 10 digital kitchen scales on Amazon UK today, 5 describe themselves as "scales", 1 describes itself as "scale", and 4 hedge their bets and use both terms. The numbers are exactly the same for the top 10 bathroom scales. Anecdotally, I would say that the UK is undergoing a shift from scales to scale, partly generational.

2015年3月24日 · Here are two examples of context. Come at ten o'clock sharp. She said she was going to ring at nine a.m. sharp. Does it mean "exactly"?

2020年8月16日 · The US President and Vice President are elected together, and they would naturally be written with the candidate for President first, at the top of the ticket. Related: parties would hand out preprinted or “straight” tickets that had the names of their candidates, which voters (especially illiterate ones) could take directly to the ballot box.

When we use words like first, second, third, fourth or 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, in sentences, what will be the best way to write these? Also, what about numbers? Do we put them as numbers or numerals? ...