ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: pages/amount

Ant_222 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:09:10 GMT

Yoong:

It should be a very rare abbreviation, I had never seen it before! I beleive "p." and "pp." are standard, although "pg." and "pgs." look much better to my eye...

Re: pages/amount

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:21:15 GMT

In British English p. stands for 'page' and pp. 'for pages', so Ant is correct when he says that the plural of p. is pp. Here is an example from a book, and below the definition from a dictionary.

p (PAGE) noun [ C ] plural pp
WRITTEN ABBREVIATION FOR page (PAPER)
See p. 27.
The references are on pp. 256-264.

Re: pages/amount

Yoong Liat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:37:44 GMT

Hi Newguest

In AmE, the abbreviations for page and pages are as follows:

pg (PAGE) noun
MAINLY US WRITTEN ABBREVIATION FOR page (PAPER):
See pgs. 67-69.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

Re: pages/amount

Ant_222 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:21:03 GMT

I don't know. Try surfing banking and finance sites ;)

Re: pages/amount

Newguest — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:57:07 GMT

so?

Re: pages/amount

Newguest — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:23:31 GMT

one more question. Do we put USD before the number or after it, or maybe it doesn't matter, i.e., USD 2,687 or 2,687USD

Re: pages/amount

Newguest — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:09:07 GMT

thanks

Re: pages/amount

Ant_222 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:39:22 GMT

Â«Is it ever possible to use commas when writing numbers?Â»

In Russian â yes!

Also note that there're two types of seperators: the desicmal separator and the thousands separator: 15,344.70

See.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Re: pages/amount

Newguest — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:26:04 GMT

Ant_222
It should be "pp" which stands for "pages": "pp. 54-75".

"... an amount of $199.17" â if you want the most common format.

Is it ever possible to use commas when writing numbers?

Re: pages/amount

Ant_222 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:05:12 GMT

It should be "pp" which stands for "pages": "pp. 54-75".

"... an amount of $199.17" â if you want the most common format.

pages/amount

Newguest — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:38:30 GMT

How should I write it: p. 54-55. OR ps.54-55 . Should it be p. which stand for a page or ps. if there are more pages than just one

..the amount of â¬199,17 a month. THERE SHOULD BE A COMMA OR A PERIOD BEFORE 17?

thanks