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Giving prices

Introduction

Image   "That's thirty four pounds fifty, please."


Definition

A price is the amount of money you pay for something.

 

Construction

We write

We say

 

50p or £0.50

50c or €0.50

50c or 50¢ or $0.50

 

fifty pence/fifty 'p'

fifty cents

fifty cents

 

 

£25 or £25.00

€25 or €25.00

$25 or $25.00

¥25

 

 

twenty-five pounds

twenty-five euros

twenty-five dollars

twenty-five yen

 

£25.45

€25.45

$25.45

 

twenty-five (pounds) forty-five (pence)

twenty-five (euros) forty-five (cents)

twenty-five dollars and forty-five cents  or

twenty-five forty-five

 

 

£25,000 or £25k

£25m

 

Note that this is similar for other currencies.

 

twenty-five thousand pounds

twenty-five million pounds

 

Note that we use a full stop to separate pounds and pence; euros and cents etc. We use a comma to separate thousands.

£5,200.50   Five thousand two hundred pounds fifty pence


 

Examples

Image    "How much is a single room with breakfast?"      "Eighty-five euros per night."

Image      "How much does a new Smart car cost?"    "About nine thousand pounds."

Image      "I like the blue one. How much is it?"  "I can't see the price tag - twelve dollars and fifty cents, I think."

Image     It costs about €2,000 per day to rent a jet.

Image  "The new computers cost one hundred and eighty thousand yen."

Image    "So, two coffees, a tea, a hot chocolate and four cakes...that comes to fourteen pounds eighty."   

Image   "How much do the red ones cost?"    "Seventy-seven cents each."