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Key points with numbers, percentages, telephone & email

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

A Few Common Mistakes With Numbers

In Spanish it's different you're going to translate across from Spanish and therefore there are going to be some mistakes made with percentages. Another way that people say zero especially when we're talking about percentages or decimals is not 0.5 percent but N O U G H T naught. It sounds a little bit like that series of verbs in the past tense bought court fought taught oh I forgot one black I remember there's another one um so it is exactly the same pronunciationso it's past tense verbs there just to give you a little reference point. You'll also find another point to remember with numbers is that  we separate the numbers with commas and then the final part with

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