eleventh

Converse of object

• finish: Keith finished eleventh in a field of twenty during that first race.
• come: The following month saw Mike come eleventh in a Welsh Assembly Government-backed poll of the top 100 Welsh heroes!
• place: The Latics were beaten by eleventh placed Plymouth this afternoon at the JJB Stadium.

Preposition: on

• grid: Also ahead of Clive was Howard Payne, up from eleventh on the grid.

Used with adjective complement

• finish: The club remained patient as the Reds finished eleventh in 1986/87 and again in 1988/89.
• place: Rachael finished behind Germany's Susanne Hirt with fellow Briton Heather Corrie placed eleventh.

Modifies a noun

• commandment: Think of the recent radio competition to come up with an eleventh commandment for our age.
• century: In the eleventh century Stanton was held by the de Lacy family, the same family who built Ludlow Castle.
• hour: On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, the fighting ceased.
• birthday: I remember my eleventh birthday, my sister getting herself killed in a car crash.
• chapter: The eleventh chapter of Matthew begins with John the Baptist in prison.
• edition: The 2006 Good Schools Guide, now in its eleventh edition, is available directly from The Good Schools Guide Website.

Preposition: in

• series: GISRUK Conference Report Kamie Kitmitto The GISRUK 2003 is the eleventh in this series of conferences which began in 1993.
• league: Britain has fallen from fourth to eleventh in the world league for competitiveness.
• table: Figures show Alistair Carmichael eleventh in a table of Scottish MPs activities, with 298 contributions in the past year.

Preposition: of

• series: Clicking on Canals No 11 - The eleventh of a regular series of articles on waterways on the internet.
• child: He was the eleventh of thirteen children, to General Sir Richard Strachey ( an engineer ) and his wife Jane Grant.