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Jun 24, 2011 · Semantic note: In Britain and Australia, the Ground floor counts as 0. The first floor is above the ground floor. A three storey building has a ground, a first and a second floor. In …

Oct 15, 2023 · Find some useful collocations which have both British and American forms and which your students are only likely to know one version of. Split the unfamiliar forms and put …

May 24, 2011 · I could refer to "the second floor" and "the third floor". "the" in those two phrases is necessary since "floor" is countable. Now, if I want to refer to those floors together, I could …

Jul 6, 2008 · Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), a rather more relevant source than google for our purposes, gives 881 citations for 'on the second floor' and 17 for 'at' the …

Oct 15, 2023 · first floor – the first floor above the ground (upstairs from the ground floor, “second floor” in American English) – the floor at ground level (“ground floor” in British English) wash …

Apr 21, 2020 · If I live on the first floor and my friend is on the ground floor I can say: You need to go upstairs. You can take the stairs or the elevator. AND ALSO You need to go up to the first …

⚫ The floor that you can walk into from the street – First floor (US)/ ground floor (British) ⚫ The floor above that – Second floor (American English)/ first floor (British English) ⚫ 15-0 – fifteen …

Jan 29, 2012 · At our first meeting, she asked my age. In our first meeting, she asked my age. On first acquaintance, she asked my age. Can I say all of them for the same meeting? Thank you …

Jun 24, 2022 · More specifically, they need to be able to convert ordinal numbers to and from short forms (“1 st = first”, etc) and cardinal numbers (“1 = first”, etc). If they can’t work it out for …