NUMBERS AND MONEY

a/ Amounts of money1:
You talk about exact amounts of money
and write amounts on cheques like this:
$12.99 Twelve dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Twelve dollars ninety-nine.
Twelve ninety-nine.
£211.53Two hundred and eleven pounds and fifty-
three pence.
Two hundred and eleven and fifty-three.
Two hundred and eleven, fifty-three.
€33,972.35 Thirty-three thousand nine hundred
seventy-two euros and thirty-five cents.
Thirty-three thousand nine hundred and
seventy-two euros thirty-five.
Thirty-three thousand nine hundred .
and seventy-two, thirty-five.
Note: BrE: cheque AmE: check
Note : in BrE you usually say and in numbers, but
in AmE you don’t usually and in numbers.
Note: Amounts of money are also called, formally,
sums of money.

b/ Amounts of money 2:
You can refer to large amounts of money using
fractions like this:
£2,250,000 two and a quarter million pounds.
$6,500,000,000 six and a half billion dollars.
€19,750,000,000 nineteen and three quarters
billion euros.
c/Approximate amounts:
When you don’t give an exact amount, but you
want to give an idea of the size of a figure which is
large amount in your opinion, you use “of”:

Hundreds pounds
Thousands  of pence
Millions euros
Billions
When you give an exact amount, you don’t use the
word “of”. For example, you say:
This camera costs five hundred and twenty-five
euros.

When you don’t give an exact figure, you can also

use:
about
The price of this house is around $2,500,000.
Roughly
Approximately

These words show that this figure is not exact – it

is near this amount but may be higher or lower.