表示数目的词称基数词。15 fifteen，几百几千不加s，242 two hundred and forty-two，5058 five thousand and fifty-eight，9，600，000 nine million six hundred thousand

　　1.基数词可以用于数字的计算。

　　6+8 = 14 Six plus eight is fourteen.

　　9-7 = 2 Nine minus seven is two.

　　7X5 = 35 Seven times five is thirty-five.

　　8÷4 = 2 Eight divided by four is two.

　　2.基数词可以表示人的大致年龄和年代。

　　He died in his fifties.

　　3.基数词可以用来表达年份、时间、电话号码。

　　1700 seventeen hundred

　　1814 eighteen fourteen

　　4.基数词可以用于编号。

　　Number six， line 4， page 19， Bus(No.) 332， Platform (No.) 5， Room 101

　　5.基数词可以和其他词一起构成合成形容词，在句子中作定语。

　　A one-month-old baby can recognize its mother by smell.

　　This eleven-month-old baby can speak a few words.

　　(The baby is eleven months old.)

　　The teacher asked us to write a four-thousand-word essay as our homework.

　　(There are four thousand words in the essay.)