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Define the styles for ordinals in the sentence structure guidelines.


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06120
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  • Define number formatting and number usage in the sentence structure guidelines., CC ID: 06116

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  • Use figures rather than words to express an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 180th, instead of first, second, third, and one-hundred- eightieth, respectively). (§ 351(b)(1), House Legislative Counsel's Manual on Drafting Style, 104th Congress, 1st Session)
  • Express ordinals in words only. (Ch 2.C(27), Form and Style Manual for Legislative Measures, Sep 23, 1999)
  • Ordinal numbers also appear in the text of the Maine Revised Statutes in Arabic form and are also written out (2nd, 3rd ...) unless the number is "first" or the first word in a sentence. (Part III Ch 2 § 5, Maine Legislative Drafting Manual, 1st Edition)