[stylist] Writing question

[LoriStay at aol.com]

I would write it out.
Lori

In a message dated 11/11/08 5:12:01 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:


> I could be wrong, but I would write the house as being 100 years old, using
> the numerals.  She carried two little dogs... writing out the number.
> Judith
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> > When in a narrative of a story and you are needing to speak of a number,
> > under what circumstances do you use an actual numeral/number verses
> > writing
> > out the word? For example- the house is 100 years old. Or- She carried the
> > two little dogs up to the seventeenth floor.
> >
> > Are there rules? Or is it just style?
> >
> >
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