CBSE Class 6 English Writing Numbers Worksheet

In charts and tables always write numbers as figures. However, in sentences numbers are sometimes spelled out and sometimes written as numerals.

Spell out numbers that can be written in one or two words.

There are twenty-two days until my birthday.

Use numerals for numbers of more than two words.

I think the answer is 333.

Spell out any number that begins a sentence, or reword the sentence.

Five thousand two hundred people watched the eclipse from the park.

Write a very large number as a numeral followed by million or billion.

The sun is about 93 million miles from Earth.
 

Exercise 1 Write the correct form of the number in each sentence. Write C if the sentence is correct.

      thirteen       Buffalo has won 13 games so far this year.

..................... 1. Tickets to the game cost six dollars.

..................... 2. The population of Avon is about four thousand.

..................... 3. 14,000 people signed the petition.

..................... 4. Last year the shelter found homes for six hundred eight cats.

..................... 5. The blizzard dumped 4 feet of snow on our town.

..................... 6. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.

..................... 7. The planet Saturn is about 900 million miles from the sun.

..................... 8. Crater Lake in Oregon is more than 1,950 feet deep.

..................... 9. I’ve seen that movie 3 times.

..................... 10. In 1990 this country imported about 2 million cars from Japan.

..................... 11. The Grand Canyon is about one mile deep.

..................... 12. Nevada is about 490 miles long from north to south.

..................... 13. About five million people have seen this movie.

..................... 14. The meeting room will hold 200 people.

..................... 15. The Ohio River is about 981 miles long.
 

Exercise 2 Draw a line under the correct form.

(40, forty) minutes

1. (6, six) billion cats

2. (8, eight) cars

3. (20, twenty) inches

4. (642, six hundred forty-two) miles

5. (12, twelve) inches

6. (2, Two) bikes are parked there.

7. (3, three) million dollars

8. (81, eighty-one) feet high

9. (60, sixty) meters wide

10. (13, thirteen) years old

11. (20, twenty) minutes

12. (3, three) phone calls

13. (88,000, eighty-eight thousand) pounds

14. A yard is shorter than (1, one) meter.

15. Is the answer (15, fifteen) million or billion?
 

If one number in a sentence must be written as a numeral, use all numerals, even though you might spell out one of the numbers if it appeared alone.

Jessica has 305 points, and Cleon has 300 points.

Spell out ordinal numbers (first, second, and so forth).

Alaina was first in line to buy tickets to the concert.

Use words for amounts of money that can be written in one or two words, for the approximate time of day, and for the time of day when A.M. or P.M. is not used.

ten cents             half past six            a quarter past five             two o’clock

Use numerals for dates, for decimals, for house, apartment and room numbers, for street or avenue numbers, for telephone numbers, for page numbers, for percentages, for amounts of money involving both dollars and cents, to emphasize the exact time of day, or when A.M. or P.M. is used.

May 9, 1996             20 percent             $45.75             1:12 P.M.
 

Exercise 1 Write the correct form of the number in each sentence. Write C if the sentence is correct.

           96          Central finished the game with ninety-six points, but South had 104 points.

..................... 1. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon on May 15.

..................... 2. The eclipse begins at 2:15 P.M.

..................... 3. She was the lst in her family to go to college.

..................... 4. About forty-eight % of the students bring their lunches to school.

..................... 5. This slice of bread has 120 calories; that one has sixty.

..................... 6. I think she lives at 20 St. James Place.

..................... 7. My grandmother lives in Apartment twenty-one.

..................... 8. He dropped his books for the second time that day.

..................... 9. The telephone number of the planetarium is 787-2112.

..................... 10. Did you do the 3rd problem yet?

..................... 11. Mom got home at around 6 o’clock.

..................... 12. Alabama has 53 miles of coastline; Florida has 770.

..................... 13. Please open your book to page fifty-three.

..................... 14. When it’s ten o’clock in Ohio, it’s seven o’clock in California.

..................... 15. I’ve seen that movie three times.

..................... 16. Twenty-five percent of all our customers are under sixteen years old.

..................... 17. Can you lend me 45 cents until tomorrow?

..................... 18. Supper is at five-twenty-five P.M. sharp.

..................... 19. Last night we had spaghetti for the 3rd time this week.

..................... 20. Send your postcards to thirty-three Exchange St.

..................... 21. Massachusetts entered the Union on February 6, 1788.

..................... 22. Delaware was the lst state to enter the Union.

..................... 23. People began writing in about four thousand B.C.

..................... 24. In A.D. one there were about 200 million people in the world.

..................... 25. Is fifteen miles longer than 15 kilometers?

..................... 26. This is the sixth episode of the show that I’ve seen.

..................... 27. Is it 8 o’clock already?

..................... 28. We are 100% ready.

..................... 29. The movie starts at 6:20 P.M. and ends at eight o’clock.

..................... 30. Confucius lived around 500 B.C.
 

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