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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 the US, a three story building has a first, second and third floor. (Correct me if regional changes have been made lately).

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 the first halves of some on the Student A worksheet and the first halves of the others on the Student B worksheet, with the endings on the other worksheets.

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 write: "the second and third floors...." Could "the" in the third phrase be dropped without ill effect?

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 second floor'. Last edited: Jan 14, 2011

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 up – do the dishes – wash your hands; cot – a baby’s bed (“crib” in American English) – a foldable extra bed (like a camp bed)

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 floor. You can take the stairs or the elevator. If I live on the second floor and my friend is on the ground floor I can say: ONLY You need to go up to the second ...

⚫ 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 love (tennis)/ fifteen nil (unlikely soccer score)/ fifteen zero (other sports)

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 so much as always and take good care.

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 themselves, they will need to be told that numbers with 1, 2 and 3 add “-st”, “-nd” and “-rd” rather than the usual “-th”, and that this ...