How to ask ordinal question

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sb70012

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Hello teachers,

Look at this sentence. Suppose that we are talking about the fifth president of a country. I can't make a
question for that.

I want to make a question for this answer: (He is the fifth president)
I can't make that.

Can these be correct?

Which number president he is?
Which president he is?
What ranking president he is?

Suppose that the quiestioner wants to know whether he is fifth president, fourth, sixth, ....etc.
I can't make such question.
I hope you understood me.
 

Raymott

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See the "similar threads" below. There is no one correct way to ask these questions.
 

emsr2d2

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So that we don't get bogged down in a subject that we have all spent far too much time on in the past, I am closing this thread. The OP will find all the information they need from the previous threads.
 
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