Antonia: eighty miles

Hello,

1.Does anybody know how much kilometers per hour is 80 miles?

2. What does it mean

He passed Grady Hospital a little ways past the split.

3. He took the downtown exit, then drove by the capitol. What is capitol, written in liek this?

4. What does it mean: He didn't called her after the divorce. He didn't have a leg to stand on. (He didn't have an excuse, reason for that?)

Thank you

Hi guys,

Does anybody know how much kilometers per hour is 80 miles? Actually, one mile is 1.6 kilometers, so 80 mph = 128 kph. Sorry, YoHf, I misread your figure of 128,748 as 'one hundred and twenty eight thousand ...' It's because the English-language convention is to use a decimal point rather than a comma, ie 128.748      How would you actually write the number 'one hundred and twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred'? Would you write it the same way?

2. What does it mean

He passed Grady Hospital a little ways past the split. I think it means past where the road divides. I usually hear 'the fork'.

3. He took the downtown exit, then drove by the capitol. What is capitol, written in liek this? It means the main government building, where the representatives have their discussions.

4. What does it mean: He didn't called her after the divorce. He didn't have a leg to stand on. (He didn't have an excuse Yes, reason for that?)

Best wishes, Clive

I'm sorry guys. Here in Italy we use a comma instead of a ponit.

How would you actually write the number 'one hundred and twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred'? Would you write it the same way?

128700 or 128 700 or 128.700

Best wishes,

YoHf

YoHf wrote:

I'm sorry guys. Here in Italy we use a comma instead of a point.

Sorry, YoHf, I think I was advised of this earlier, and haven't yet retained the fact (because it seems so illogical when you think of a period representing a full stop in writing.  Not that AmE has no oddities.)

I'll speak for YoHf (if I may?), since it's the same system for me. Decimals are always preceded by a comma, but that's with numbers; a comma in texts is the same comma as yours, has the same value.

10, 50 cm is ten point fifty cm. / 10.000 miles is ten thousand miles