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Summary: When writing fractions in words, write it exactly as it would be read if it were being read as a number. Write fractions that have large denominators with tips from a writing instructor in this free video on writing lessons.
Laura Minnigerode is a writing instructor and former classroom teacher. Her teaching experience includes public and private schools, as well as writing workshops for adults and...read more
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"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshop.com and I'm going to talk about how to write, writing fractions in words. The trick to writing fractions in words is to write it exactly as you would read it if you were reading a number. For example, one half, expressed as a number 1/2, you would right out, one, the word one, o-n-e and then half. That's a very easy example. Where it gets slightly more difficult is when the denominator is a larger number. For example, 6/41. Now that's a number that is, you might not see as often but the simple way of writing it as a word would again be to write six and then a dash and then forty firsts. Again expressing it, writing it exactly the way you would say it out loud is the way to write fractions as numbers. Just keeping in mind that the larger the number, the larger the denominator, the more awkward it is going to sound to write it as a word but again the proper way to write a fraction as a word is to write it as you would say it if you were reading the number out loud. That's a little bit about writing fractions as numbers. That's a little bit about writing fractions as words."
eHow Article: Writing Fractions in Words
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j0hn said
on 2/6/2009 In 41 the hyphen goes between forty and one; forty-one. Does not the hyphen in 6/41 go between forty and first? six forty-firsts.