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Giving prices
Introduction
"That's thirty four pounds fifty, please."
Definition
A price is the amount of money you pay for something.
Construction
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50p or £0.50 50c or €0.50 50c or 50¢ or $0.50 |
fifty pence/fifty 'p' fifty cents fifty cents
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£25 or £25.00 €25 or €25.00 $25 or $25.00 ¥25
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twenty-five pounds twenty-five euros twenty-five dollars twenty-five yen |
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£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
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£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
"How much is a single room with breakfast?" "Eighty-five euros per night."
"How much does a new Smart car cost?" "About nine thousand pounds."
"I like the blue one. How much is it?" "I can't see the price tag - twelve dollars and fifty cents, I think."
It costs about €2,000 per day to rent a jet.
"The new computers cost one hundred and eighty thousand yen."
"So, two coffees, a tea, a hot chocolate and four cakes...that comes to fourteen pounds eighty."
"How much do the red ones cost?" "Seventy-seven cents each."
