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1. I'm wondering which is the right usage between "the 1st" and "1st" in these sentences: a) The United States ranked 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index. b) The United States ranked the 1st in Bloomberg's Global Innovation Index. I've seen a) in the news, however, it is like I've learned the definite article ('the') is required before ...
Barring cases of extreme abbreviations (where one might use such abbreviations as "t ppl complaind abt t difficulty n reading &c", such as some live internet chat room, or mediaeval manuscripts) then 1st must only be used when first is an actual ordinal; that is it could be replaced by "in position number one" and make the same sense, albeit clumsily:
Aug 23, 2014 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.
其中1st，2nd，3rd为特殊形式，其它的都是阿拉伯数字后加th。 扩展资料 在英语中，使用序数词时前面要加定冠词 the，但是，在下面的情况下则不加 the：
May 19, 2016 · Yes, say item negative one or index negative one. You shouldn't be using ordinals for indexes. The item at index zero in a c-style array is the first item in the array. It's not the zeroth item, though you can call it item number zero. Ordinals only make sense as an outgrowth of natural numbers.
Most Romance languages do, along with a number of others, including Dutch and English. In English, Wikipedia says these started out as superscripts: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, but during the 20 th century they migrated to the baseline: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. So the practice started during the Roman empire, and probably was continuously used since ...
Apr 10, 2015 · Similarly on a different English language forum, a native speaker confirms. In the US, “ground floor” and “first floor” mean the same thing and are used interchangeably. Usually elevator buttons marked ‘B1’, ‘B2’ etc. do indeed refer to “basement”. Sometimes they will say ‘LL1’, ‘LL2’, which stands for “lower level ...
更多回答（2）. 英语数字缩写如1st ――first1至50序数词：第1 first 1st，第2 second 2nd，第3 third 3rd，第4 fourth 4th，第5 fifth 5th，第6 sixth 6th，第7 seventh 7th，第8 eighth 8th，第9 ninth 9th，第10 tenth 10th，第1.
Aug 28, 2014 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
Jun 4, 2015 · There are multiple ways to express this in competitions: Winner, 1st runner-up, 2nd runner-up, etc. 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, 1st prize, 2nd prize, etc. In your example it may help to say how many were competing, because if you came in 3rd place out of three, that is quite different that third place out of 100, or however many.
