Here are some phrases and expressions using numbers and American prices.

See also: Free-English-Study: Numbers and Prices.

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American Numbers and Prices

Remember that in English, we divide prices at the decimal point.

For example:

$4.59

four dollars (and) fifty-nine cents four / fifty nine

(long way) (short way)

(Time is also divided in a similar way: 12:47 is said ?twelve / forty-seven?)

Americans often say large numbers in ?phrases? of two digits.

For example:

267 4381

two hundred sixty-seven two / sixty seven four thousand three hundred eighty-one forty-three / eighty-one

(long way) (short way)

Some people also use two-digit phrasing with telephone numbers:

565-8347

five-six-five // eighty-three / forty-seven

Practice the following prices (both long and short ways) with a partner:

That will be____(price)______
That comes to ____(price)____

$59.65 $27.95 $14.40

$1.79* $6.75 $77.17

$29.00** $82.03 $70.50

$425.78 $781.34 $211.54

$231.49 $690.42 $380.18

$3,657.88 $9,405.31 $1,550.15

*Also: a dollar seventy-nine
**Also: twenty-nine (dollars) even