Cover of the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 - Memorable people for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Listen and check. When do we use and? When do we use the?

Answer

  • We use and before the smallest part of a big number ( one thousand and ten; ten million, six hundred and forty), and between whole numbers and fractions (three and a half; nine and three-quarters).
  • We use the before dates (the fourth of June) and time periods (the fifth century; the nineteenth seventies).