Technique Builders

Numbers
Don't forget to leave a 15% tip.
A fifteen percent tip.
15% of 35.20£ is 5.25£
Fifteen percent of thirty five pounds twenty is five pounds twenty five.

Fractions
We can each pay ½.
a half (also one half or half)
Our profits are ¼ of our revenue.
a quarter (also one quarter)
We have gone 1/3 of the way.
a third (one third)

Writing English Builders

Making a request
1. Informal
John send me the report.
2. Formal
Mr. Smith could you send me the report?
3. Very formal
Mr. Smith. I was hoping that you could send me the report.