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21.05.2021 16:55

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Weights and Measures
English weights and measures are very difficult to (1) foreigner.
For general use the smallest weight is 1 ounce (written oz) and there (2) 16 ounces in a pound (written lb). The English buy ___ (3), tobacco and sometimes cigarettes by the ounce while most___
(4) or fruit, such as apples, (5), strawberries, by the pound,
half-pound or quarter-pound.
Fourteen pounds (6) 1 stone. The English always give people’s
weight in stones and pounds. For example, a man (7) 11 stones
9 lbs (not 163 lbs).
112 lbs make up 1 hundredweight (written cwt) and (8) are
20 hundredweights in a ton.
Liquids are (9) in pints, quarts and gallons. There are 2 pints in
a quart and 4 quarts in a (10).
Finally, for length the principal (11) are inches, feet, yards
and miles.
The easiest way to remember them, perhaps, is a little (12)
like this: