+250.+ Numeral adjectives are those which limit nouns as to number or
order. They are such adjectives as _one_, _two_, _three_, _four_, etc.,
and _first_, _second_ and _third_, etc., as for example:
_Three_ men applied for work.
The train ran at the rate of _forty_ miles an hour.
There have always been _two_ classes in the world.
The _first_ martyr to anti-militarism was Jaures.
The _eighteenth_ day of March is the anniversary of the Paris Commune.
In these sentences the adjectives _three_, _forty_, _two_, _first_ and
_eighteenth_ are all numeral adjectives. They limit the nouns which they
modify as to number or order.
+Adjectives that limit nouns as to number or order are called numeral
adjectives. Numeral adjectives answer the question how many or in what
order.+