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Cardinal numbers are numbers that are used in the syntactical sense for denoting number. They are the numbers that are used for counting. For example, in the sentence, "That cool cat had three chicks" Three is a cardinal number, as a opposed to ordinal numbers which indicate order, as in first, second, and third, or numerals which are the specific words in a language that represent a number, like the word one-hundred.  
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Cardinal Numbers are used for counting. (One, two, three etc.)
  
 
==See also==
 
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_numbers
  
 
==References==
 
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*Crystal, D. (2008) ''Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 09:43, 15 June 2012

Cardinal Numbers are used for counting. (One, two, three etc.)

See also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.