Exercise 9. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Perfect Tense.

1. He just (go) out.

2. Someone (take) my bicycle.

3. The phone (stop) ringing.

4. I just (wash) that floor.

5. The cat (steal) the fish.

6. There aren’t any buses because the drivers (go) on strike.

7. I (live) here for ten years.

8. I (buy) a new carpet. Come and look at it.

9. Would you like some coffee? I just (make) some.

10. I (not pay) the telephone bill yet.

Exercise 10. Give the ’s form of the possessive.

The father of James The clothes of the boys The coat of the boy The club of the women The fur of the fox

The poems of Keats The Park of St James The wedding of William and Mary The hats of ladies The toys of my children

Exercise 11. Put into the possessive.

Henry James ..... novels children ..... thousands Helen ..... a colleague sugar ..... lump

tomorrow ..... newspaper walk ..... ten minutes Shakespeare ..... poem wine ..... a bottle

Exercise 12.

Complete the table. Fill in the missing singular, singular possessive, plural, and plural possessive forms.

1.	parent	parent’s	parents	parents’
2.		pilot’s
3.			wives
4.	mouse
5.		boss’s
6.			babies

Exercise 13. Fill in the blanks with a noun form from the parentheses.

1. Whose book is this? It’s the teacher’s. (teacher’s, teachers)

2. Whose toothbrush is that? It’s my ..... (sister’s, sisters’)

3. Whose lunch boxes are those? They’re the ..... (worker’s, workers’)

4. What do they sell there? They sell ..... (flower, flowers)

5. What do the children laugh at? The funny ..... (clowns, clowns’)

6. What have they bought? A pair of ..... (shoe, shoes)

7. Who uses this book? The ..... (teacher, teacher’s)

8. Who has left these shoes here? The ..... (children, children’s)

9. Whose children are those? They’re that ..... (woman’s, women’s)

10. Have you called your sister? No, the ..... wasn’t working. (phone, phones)

11. Does she want to be a nurse? – No, a ..... life is hard. (nurse, nurse’s)

Exercise 14. Fill in the blanks with another form of the underlined noun.

1. Mr Kidd has a son in the army and two sons in the navy.

2. Our family have lunch in the park on Sunday. Many ..... are there.

3. A woman asks the clerk, «Where do you have .... hats?»

4. Herb and Oliver have new bikes. ..... bike is green.

5. Your teacher is not in school. She’s at a ..... meeting today.

6. My wife wants to go to the party. Many ..... don’t want to go.

7. Today is Sunday. This month has five ..... .

8. One farmer’s house is on fire. All the other ..... help him.

9. He has fourteen cows. One ..... leg is broken.

10. The boss will be here soon. Don’t sit there; that’s the ..... chair.