Teaching Numeric in Correspondence

1. Harissa Mardiana
Numerals in Correspondence

2. What is it?
Numerals in correspondence are the
numbers that represented in the
corresponding ways.
It is conventional

3. The way to write numbers up to
hundred
twenty-six days from now
A membership of one hundred
Six thousand letters
One hundred and twenty years ago

4. Time of day
Use words before o’clock and figures before
a.m and p.m.
Six o’clock but 6.o a.m
for 24-hour system always use for figures
with no spaces and no punctuation:
0025 i.e. 0.25a.m.
1140 i.e 11.40a.m.

5. Money in correspondence
£10 (or £10.00); £64.06;
76dp (or £0.76dp)
No use of £sign nor the p sign takes a
full stop, except at the end of a
sentence.
The p sign is not used in amounts
expressed in £s:£84.18 (not £84.18p)
Note: the decimal form the £ sign is
followed by a nought (to prevent
confusion with £29 and £82d)

6. Quotations and Estimates
As a precaution against mis-typings,
amounts in figures are often repeated in
words with brackets:
£16.00 (sixteen pounds)
£67.06d (sixty-seven pounds 06d)

7. Money in columns
Method 1
£
110.51½
0.67
12.24½
£123.43
Method 2
£
110.515
0.67
12.245
£123.43

8. Money in Cheques
Figures
£20-00
£19-55
£0-74
£1.05(if typed)
£1-05(if handwritten)
Words
Twenty pounds only
Nineteen pounds 55
Seventy-four pence
One pound 05

9. Measurements and Quantities
5ft 3 in or 5’ 3”
8lb 3oz
3.5m
16m
13.5kg (or kilo)
3/5
.73 or 0.73

10. Legal Documents
THIS ASSIGNMENT is made the ninth day of
January two thousand twelve in consideration
of the sum of three thousand and six hundred
and seventy-five pounds between James Brown
of 110 normanshire Drive, Chingford
and….

11. Ordinal Numbers
The twentieth century; the thirty-first annual
general meeting
Use of Commas in figures
3,476,312; £4,583
the 1914-18 war;
01-242-2177;
Page 1152

12. Singulars used as Plurals
Weight and measure: two ton of coal; five pound
of sugar; six foot square
Five tons of coal; but five-ton lorry
Two gallons of petrol, but a two-gallon can;
Three years old, but a three-year plan.

13. Ceremonious Forms of Address
Secretaru of Rank
or Title
Form of Address Salutation, and
style of address
Complimentary
close
The Queen The Queen’s Most
Excellent Majesty
Madam or May it
please your Majesty
(Your Majesty)
I have the honour to
remain Your
Majesty’s faithful
subject
Judge (High Court) The Hon Sir Thomas
Clay or Knight
Sir I have the honour to
be, Sir, Your
obedient servant
Mayor (For certain City)
The Right
Worshipful the
Mayor of…..
Sir (or Madam) I am, Madam
Your obedient
servant
Secretary of State HM Principal
Secretary of State for
the ..Department
Sir I am, Sir
Your obedient
servant