1. Use of Articles with Common Nouns--------------------------------------------------------------------------45

2. Use of Articles with Proper Nouns-----------------------------------------------------------------------------46

   1. Geographical Names-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------46

   2. Names of Persons--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------47

   3. Use of Articles in the Names of Places, Buildings, Public Organizations, etc.----------------------48

3. Use of Articles with the Names of Seasons and Parts of the Day------------------------------------------49

4. Use of Articles with the Names of Meals---------------------------------------------------------------------49

5. Use of Articles with the Nouns School/College, Prison/Jail, Bed, Church, Town, Hospital-----------50

6. Revision------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50

THE PRONOUN----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------52

1. Personal Pronouns------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------52

2. Possessive Pronouns----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------53

3. Reflexive Pronouns-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------54

4. Demonstrative Pronouns-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------54

5. Defining Pronouns------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------54

6. Indefinite and Negative Pronouns------------------------------------------------------------------------------55

7. Relative Pronouns------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55

8. Revision------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------56

THE ADJECTIVE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------56

1. The Comparison of Adjectives----------------------------------------------------------------------------------56

2. Much, many, a lot of---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------58

THE ADVERB-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------59

1. The Comparison of Adverbs------------------------------------------------------------------------------------59

2. Adverbs of Frequency--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------59

3. Little/a Little, Few/a Few----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------60

THE PREPOSITION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------61

1. Prepositions of Place---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------61

2. Prepositions of Time---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------61

3. Revision------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------62

THE CONJUCTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------62

WORD BUILDING-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63

APPENDIX-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------68

1. List of Irregular Verbs-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------68

The noun

1. The category of Number

Exercise 1 (*) Put these nouns into the plural form.

A hero, a hen, a fox, a donkey, a son, a wall, a dash, a student, a kite, a teddy, a potato, a fetch, a toy, a card, a queen, a nail, a berry, a table, a king, an oath, a kiss, a stick, a rabbit, a dish, a tax, a retort, a rock, a watch, a month, a welder.

Exercise 2 (**) Put into the plural.

1. A dog is an animal. 2. A potato is a vegetable. 3. A student is not always good. 4. A pencil is like a pen. 5. An eye is blue or brown. 6. A fish can swim. 7. A cow gives milk. 8. A picture is pretty. 9. An apple grows on a tree. 10. A girl like a sweet. 11. A cat eats meat. 12. I fill my pen with ink. 13. A sheep gives wool. 14. A writer writes a book. 15. This is my book. 16. I am busy today. 17. He doesn’t like to study his lesson. 18. That is her book. 19. The man who is sitting there is my friend. 20. She is tired. 21. She likes to study English. 22. Look at that little bird! 23. I am going to study my lessons. 24. The girl in that room is my sister. 25. He enjoys his work.

Exercise 3 (**) Put in “is” or “are”.

1. I like Chinese tea. This tea ___ the best tea in the world. 2. Economics ___ a science which studies one of the branches of industry. 3. Sheep ___ near the river not far from the farm-house. 4. Love ___ a great feeling. A lot of poets wrote poems about it. 5. French ___ one of my favourite languages. 6. The wedding of Tom and Lisa ___ wonderful. 7. The building ___ made of glass. 8. Russian honey ___ well-known all over the world. 9. Trout ___ in our lake. Let’s go fishing. 10. Your cooking of this pie ___ so strange.

Exercise 4 (**) Put in “is” or “are”.

1. The news __ heard on the radio at nine o’clock. 2. Some people __ coming today. 3. Dan’s trousers __ torn. 4. The furniture in the room __ of good quality. 5. His information __ not correct.

Exercise 5 (***) Put into the singular.

1. Deer are animals. 2. Boots are kinds of shoes. 3. Watches are small clocks. 4. Tables are pieces of furniture. 5. Frenchmen are Europeans. 6. Girls wear dresses. 7. Children are not always good. 8. Hungry boys eat large dinners. 9. Classrooms have blackboards. 10. Schools are large buildings.

Exercise 6 (***) Put into the plural.

This is a boy. The boy is tall. This is his sister. And that is his cat. It is black. The boy has got a farm. There is an animal on this farm. There is a cow, an ox, a sheep, a horse and a pig on the farm. There is a potato and a cabbage. Now the boy is digging in the garden. And his sister is feeding a chicken. A mountain is near the farm. It is grey and white. There is a fox. It is red. There is a wolf. It is grey. There is a baby. There is a man. This is a woman. There is a match, a mouse and a dish on the table. There is an apple and a kite under the table.

Exercise 7 (***) Translate into English.

1. В этом лесу много красивых оленей. 2. У вас есть синие карандаши? 3. Сколько эльфов на этой картинке? 4. Советы Тома полезны. 5. Декорации очень старые. Давай купим новые. 6. Твои новости ужасны! 7. Этот хлеб очень вкусный. 8. Возьми два ножа. 9. Мэри коллекционирует монеты и куклы. 10. Где фотографии?