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The Possessive form of nouns

XIII. Tick (۷) the correct sentences, then find the mistakes and correct them.

  1. Did you notice that greasy stain on my parents sofa?

  2. Dave's company has been awarded a contract to repair all the buses' engines.

  3. People in this street are very proud of their's manicured front lawns.

  4. Isn't she your secretary's brother's boss?

  5. These gloves look familiar; I think they're Joe's.

  6. The villa we' re borrowing belongs to my sister' s-in-law' s parents.

  7. I adore Lennon's and McCartney's music, especially the early stuff.

  8. This is Mario, he's a colleague of Professor Grigson.

  9. I might be able to get you an interview; the owner's a friend of me.

  10. Is that the new car of Hilary?.

  11. Elizabeth's the youngest daughter of Mr Granger.

  12. Jem saw a fantastic article in the local paper of today.

  13. Galileo was NASA's biggest project.

  14. It's in a great location, only five minutes' walk from the supermarket.

  15. Could you give me a dollar's worth of those bananas, please?

  16. How about all of us going back to the house of my brother for some coffee?

  17. Did you manage to get an appointment at the doctor's?

  18. Oh, for the sake of heaven, can't you get a move on?

  19. He's doing some research for his dissertation on anthropology's history.

The celebrities acknowledged the crowd's cheers who lined the street.

  1. Astronomers predict an eclipse of the sun on April the thirteenth's morning.

  2. Inspector Walters achieved fame with the famous serial killer's arrest.

  3. Commentators have been stunned by the scale of the scandal.

  4. The processor is the computer's main component, wouldn't you agree?

  5. This term the class will be reading the short stories' collection of Graham Greene.

  6. Everyone's been admiring my expensive wife's car.

  7. If there's one thing I can't stand it's fussy children's clothes.

  8. There's a beautiful old house for sale at the local estate's agent's.

  9. If you want a really unique wedding dress, you need to find a good maker of dresses.

  10. Great news - the college is going to give me a one year sabbatical.

Countable and uncountable nouns

XIV. Say whether these sentences need a(n) or not.

    1. He gave us all........advice on what to take with us.

    2. I'm sorry. I can't come. I have........homework to do.

    3. She's doing........investigation of teenage slang in English for her university project.

    4. You'll need........rice if you want to make a Chinese meal.

    5. Paula getting divorced ? That's........interesting news!

    6. I have to buy........film for the holiday. I think I'll get about five rolls.

    7. We saw........beautiful silk and.........cotton in Thailand.

XV. Sort these words into two columns side by side, one for uncountables and one for countables.

tip clothing case information job advice

travel garment trip work baggage fact

XVI. If necessary, correct the mistakes in these sentences.

  1. We had such a terrible weather that we left the camp-site and got an accommodation in town instead.

  2. In the North of England, most houses are made of stones, but in the South, bricks are more common.

  3. I love antique furnitures, but I would need an advice from a specialist before I bought any. My knowledges in that area are very poor.

  4. Her researches are definitely making great progresses these days. She has done a lot of original works recently.

  5. Tony computers have been stolen.

  6. We need to study Charles Dicken's early novels at school.

  7. I went to the newsagent's to buy a paper.

  8. There were hundreds of bird's nests in the trees.

  9. They're my mother-in-law's sweets.

  10. I took the books to Lewis' house yesterday.

  11. If they had been anyone else's paintings I wouldn't have gone to the exhibition.

  12. She was a friend of my mothers.

  13. The worlds airline's are moving towards a total ban on smoking.

  14. The readers letters page in the newspaper is full of complaints about the article.