Spell Out Numbers In Quotes

The small numbers such as whole numbers smaller than ten should be spelled out.

Spell out numbers in quotes. I bought eight candy bars from the vending machine. You should always write out numbers in quotes. So even though you would normally write out the word one if you were writing the snail advanced one inch.

I average eating 29 candy bars per month. That s one rule you can count on. If you come upon a case where you have two related numbers in the same sentence you should write them both as numerals if you would write one as a numeral.

There were 450 people at the party. If you don t spell numbers out it will look like you re sending an instant message and you want to be more formal than that in your writing. Everything around you is numbers.

However you should try to avoid using long clunky numbers at the beginning of a sentence. No one ever says i couldn t swing one zero zero dead cats without hitting a pheasant in south dakota mois. For example spell out all numbers that begin a sentence.

The rules for writing numbers call for spelling out numbers under ten characters and numbers at the beginning of a sentence. The idea is to write them the same way when they are in the same sentence. That s a lot of dead cats.

Spell out numbers under 10 zero through nine and use the numeric symbols for numbers 10 and up. There are some exceptions to the rule. Everything around you is mathematics.