Les adjectifs ordinaux en langue anglaise

1)

a) One → first / two → second / three → third / six → sixth / eight → eighth .

b) Ten → tenth / twelve → twelfth / fourteen → fourteenth / fifteen → fifteenth .

c) Twenty - one → twenty - first / thirty - two → thirty - second / fifty → fiftieth /

eigty - nine → eighty - ninth .

d) One hundred and fifty one → one hundred and fiftieth /

one thousand three hundred and fourteen → one thousand three hundred and fourteenth .

2)

a) Three fifths .

b) Three quarters .

c) Nine tenths .

d)  Forty - five hundredths .

e) Five eighths .

f) One ( a ) thousandth .

3)

a) the second .

b) the thirteenth .

c) the eighth .

d) the first / the sixteenth .

e) ther nineteenth .

f) the second .

4)

a) Saint Patrick's Day is on the 17th of March .

b) April's Fool's Day is on April 1.

c) Earth Day is on April 22 .

d) Mother's Day is on the second Sunday in May .

e) Valentine's Day is on the 14th of February .

f) Halloween is on October 31.

g) Independance Day is on July 14 .

h) Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday in november .

5)

a) The American elections take place ( are ) on the first Tuesday after November the second .

b) Hawaï became the fiftieth state of the United States in 1959 .

c) Three quarters of Americans are white .

d) But the proportion is going to decrease in the twentty - first century .

6)

a) 9.5 % / b) 265 million / c) one fifth / d) three hundred years .