Утевская Н.Л. - English Grammar Book. Ключи - 2011

Н. Л. Утевская

Санкт Петербург

The Noun

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Exercise X (p. 25)

1. I want your advice in this question. 2. Many of these pieces of advice were very useful to us. 3. All the data were very important. 4. We got the same data. 5. This money is not mine. 6. How much money do you have? I have little money; it isn’t enough to buy a radio set. 7. His knowledge in this field surprised us. 8. Your knowledge is not enough to fulfil this work. 9. His works in the field of physics are widely known. 10. What interesting work! 11. What news have you brought to us? 12. This news is already known to everybody. 13. What rainy weather! 14. In her childhood her hair was quite fair; now it has darkened. 15. I can tell you about very interesting phenomena which were observed by our scientists.

Exercise XI (p. 25)

1. The fruit in our garden has already ripened. 2. I like this watch very much. Where did you buy it? 3. Hair grows quicker in the childhood. 4. What pleasant news: our friends whom we waited for a long time come to us. 5. What are the contents of this book? 6. The knowledge received in the young age remain in memory for long years. 7. Money is kept in a wallet or a purse. 8. When we sleep, our clothes lie usually on the chair near the bed. 9. Which of these sheep will be sent to the exhibition? 10. The fishermen were glad: they caught much fish. 11. My fellow travellers were gay and interesting people. 12. Take these scissors, they are sharp. 13. A boy has grown and his trousers have become short for him. 14. There were six pair of stockings in the box. 15. His clothes are quite new.

Exercise XII (p. 25)

1. Fruit and vegetables are wholesome for health. 2. A young specialist always followed his friends’ advice. 3. Your brother makes good progress in studies. 4. I can tell you very interesting news.

5.Buy two pair of gloves and two dozen of woollen socks for children.

6.What are your wages? 7. There are deer in this forest.

8.I don’t know how these data are important. 9. This is very difficult but interesting work. 10. Your watch keeps bad time. 11. I couldn’t enter the garden because the gates were closed. 12. The goods have just arrived. 13. The contents of his letter were quite unexpected.

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14. Who does this money belong to? 15. What colour is her hair? 16. This money is yours, isn’t it?

Case

Exercise VII (p. 29)

1. Do you know Pete’s telephone number? 2. Do you have the map of Europe? 3. My brother’s working day begins at 9 o’clock in the morning. 4. Do you know your teacher’s opinion? 5. My sister’s husband left for Moscow. 6. They informed us about the arrival of a taxi. 7. The students fulfilled the teacher’s advice. 8. I don’t know the headmistress’s decisions yet. 9. We haven’t got the customers’ answers yet. 10. My husband’s sister works at school. 11. Let’s go to the confectioner’s. 12. He is still at your mother’s.

Exercise VIII (p. 29)

1. The tourists’ camp was situated at the bank of the river. 2. They went to the children’s Footwear Department. 3. Whose proposal do you support – the headmaster’s or the chief engineer’s? 4. What is your friend’s sister name? 5. He didn’t have a bicycle of his own, he took his neighbour’s bicycle. 6. Her eyes were as beautiful as her mother’s. 7. My brother and I bought the shoes at the same time. Mine have already worn out, and my brother’s are quite new. 8. In the sanatorium after dinner it is necessary to rest for an hour. 9. Opinions differed. Some suggested seeing the New Year in at the Petrovs’ and the others at the Nikitins’. 10. On the way home we bought a large bunch of roses – my mother’s favourite flowers. 11. The population of London is more than eight million people. 12. The portrait of Rembrandt’s wife is one of the masterpieces of the painter.

Exercise IX (p. 30)

1. Ilf’s and Petrov’s books are very popular in our country. 2. I like Shakespeare’s plays very much. 3. Her face was very little like a child’s. 4. He is one of my father’s closest friends. 5. I don’t like Ann’s new friend. 6. I spent my winter holidays at my aunt’s. 7. How I like this father’s portrait! 8. Yesterday I had no time to go to the barber’s.

9.Today we are going to our grandfather’s and grandmother’s.

10.There were four doors at the landing. I didn’t know which of them was my friends’ door. 11. What is your opinion about today’s travel?

12.Some days ago I met my mother’s old friend. 13. Yesterday I gave my watch to the watchmaker’s. 14. I had a five minute’s talk with the teacher of literature. 15. I remember this Mary’s smile very much.

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16. The doctor’s eyes met his eyes. 17. I don’t like this new Mary’s friend.

Exercise X (p. 30)

1. I spent a week at my mother’s friend who lives in New York. 2. In today’s newspaper there is a long article of my teacher. 3. There were some minutes’walk to his work. 4. He will never forget his grandmother’s kindness. 5. The master of the house doesn’t live in it, but sometimes he comes here. 6. The tone of his voice was very kind. 7. He went to the chemist’s to buy some medicine. 8. These are not my friends. These are my mother’s and father’s friends. 9. I am not at home now. I am at Helen’s. 10. Whom did you meet at my parents’? 11. He is still at his mother’s. 12. I met them when they were returning from his friends’. 13. Whose composition do you like more: Nick’s or Helen’s? 14. She is one of my father’s cousins. 15. This is one of my mother’s favourite books. 16. Little Tom was smiling. His smile was like his father’s smile.

17.I have no camera of my own. This is my grandfather’s camera.

18.Philip was one of old John’s schoolmates.

The Article

Exercise I (p. 39)

1. a, (–); 2. (–), (–), (–) (–); 3. a, a; 4. a, (–); 5. a, (–), (–); 6. a, a, an; 7. (–), (–), a, (–); 8. a, a; 9. (–), an, an, (–); 10. a, a, a; 11. an, a, an, (–), a; 12. (–), (–), a, (–); 13. (–), a; 14. a, (–), (–).

Exercise II (p. 40)

1. a, a, a; 2. (–), a, an, a; 3. (–), a, an, a; 4. a, (–), a; 5. a, a, a; 6. a, a, (–); 7. an, (–); 8. (–),(–); 9. an, a, a, a, (–); 10. a, a, a, a; 11. (–), a, a; 12. (–), a; 13. (–), a; 14. a, a.

Exercise III (p. 40)

1. the, (–), the, (–); 2. the, the, the; 3. the, (–),(–), the; 4. (–), (–); 5. the, the, the, the; 6. (–), (–), (–), the, (–); 7. (–), the, (–), (–); 8. (–), (–), the; 9. (–), (–), (–); 10. (the), (the), the; 11. (–), (–), the, the, the; 12. the, the, the, the; 13. the, (–), (–); 14. (–), the, (–), (–); 15. (–), (–), (–); 16. the, (–), the, the; 17. (–), (–), (–), (–), (–).

Exercise IV (p. 41)

1. the, (–),(–), the; 2. (–),(–), the, the; 3. (–),(–), the; 4. (–), the, (–), the; 5. (–), (–), (–), the, the, (–), the, the, the, the, the, (–), (–); 6. the, the, the,

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(–); 7. the, the, the, the, the, the; 8. the, (–), the, the, (–), the; 9. (–), (–), the, (–); 10. the, (–), (–), (–), the; 11. (–), the, the, the; 12. the, the, (–), the, (–), the, the; 13. the, the, the, the, the, the.

Exercise V (p. 42)

a, the, the, (–), (–); the; the, (–); a, the; the, the, (–); the, the, the, the; the; a, the; (–), a, (–); the, a; the, a, the, the.

Exercise VI (p. 42)

1. (–), (–), (–); 2. the, (–); 3. (–); 4. (–); 5. a, (–), the; 6. a, the; 7. a, the, the; 8. a, the, the, the; 9. an, (–), the, (–), (–); 10. (–), (the), the; 11. (–), a; 12. a, the, the; 13. a, (–); 14. the, the, (–), (–), the; 15. a, a, (–); 16. a; 17. the, (–); 18. (–), the; 19. (–), the, (–); 20. (–).

Exercise VII (p. 42)

1. the, (–),(–); 2. an; 3. (–), the, (–), (–); 4. a, (–); 5. an; 6. the, the; 7. the; 8. the, (–), the, the; 9. the, the; 10. the; 11. (–), the; 12. (–), the, a; 13. a, the.

Exercise VIII (p. 43)

1. the, the, the, a, the; 2. a, a, a, (–), (–); 3. (–), (–), (–), (–); 4. (–), the, a, (–), the; (–), the, (–); 5. a, the, the, the; 6. a, a, a, the, the, the, (–); 7. the, the; 8. the, the; 9. a; the, the; 10. a, the, the; 11. (–), the; 12. (–), the, (–); 13. (–), a.

Exercise IX (p. 43)

1. I got acquainted with him in a small southern town. 2.Aman is waiting for you near the house. 3. Who has brought this letter? – A boy has. 4. Where is the dictionary? – It is in the bookcase. 5. Who is this woman? – She is the wife of an engineer, who works in our plant. 6. A man rang you up today in the morning. 7. I knew them when they were students. 8. He was born in a little town not far from Moscow. 9. The door opened and a young man with a suitcase in his hand entered the room. 10. When the professor entered the auditorium, the students stood up. 11. A child studies a foreign language easily. 12. What a beautiful day! 13. What warm weather! 14. It is such an interesting story. 15. It is a too easy text for you. 16. They are such educated people!

Exercise X (p. 44)

1. Last summer we lived in a village situated on the bank of the Volga, in a little house surrounded by a large garden. 2. Large old limes grew

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in front of the house. 3. Yesterday I spoke to the man who spent some years in China. 4. I don’t remember the figures which he mentioned in his report. 5. A man who wants to master a foreign language must work very hard and systematically. 6. I have just read a story which I liked very much. 7. The story which I have just read is very interesting.

8.Shall we meet after school? – Where? – At the entrance to school.

9.It was already night; but fortunately it was a summer night, and the weather was dry. 10. A day has just begun, and the air was clean and cool. 11. I’ll call on you after dinner. 12. He asked me to tell you that they would go on an excursion to the Hermitage next week. 13. He was recommended to us as a man with the good knowledge of a language.

14.Some people eat icecream in the street even in winter. 15. Such data are always necessary.

Exercise XI (p. 44)

1.A bookshelf is more convenient than a bookcase in a small room.

2.He likes to drink not from a cup, but only from a glass. 3. Such a problem must interest you. 4. They entered the carriage where there were no vacant seats. 5. I have never seen the friendship stronger than that one of these two people. 6. She looked at the clock on the corner of the street and understood that she had been late for the train. 7. Today the group of journalists that consists mainly of the students will begin to climb the Elbrus. 8. Your son will be operated on by the surgeon who is working at the thesis on this subject.

9.Early in the morning before breakfast the sportsmen went to the river to bathe. 10. What shall we have for supper? 11. You can always get hot breakfast in this canteen. 12. On Saturdays they usually have guests to supper. 13. Excursionists come here by land and by sea in the daytime and at night. 14. We spent summer on the Dneper. 15. Be attentive, you have made a mistake.

Exercise XII (p. 44)

1. I want a piece of advice in this difficult affair. 2. It’s a pity to be indoors in such beautiful weather. 3. Don’t sit in the sun for such a long time, you will have a headache. 4. The Black Sea is very rough in winter. 5. She likes music very much. 6. The sky was clear, and the stars were shining brightly. 7. What pleasant news you have brought to us! 8. The Volga is the most important waterway in this country. 9. It was an early morning, and the grass was covered with dew. 10. The milk which I bought today in the morning turned sour.

11.It was a warm morning; a light wind was blowing from the sea.

12.Very good sorts of grapes grew in the Crimea. 13. It was evening

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and the family was sitting at table. 14. Tea is very strong, pour some water, please. 15. I hope that you won’t spend your holidays in town.

Exercise III (p. 47)

Wonderful, friendly, troublesome, bloody, harmful, careful, greenish, woollen, tiresome, truthful, comfortable, faithful, shameful, sunny, wooden, attractive, foolish, humorous, occasional, rainy, natural.

Exercise IV (p. 47)

1. foolish; 2. central; 3. valuable; 4. athletic; 5. starry; 6. comfortable; 7. humorous; 8. friendly.

Exercise VIII (p. 48)

Uncertain, unpleasant, inattentive, incapable, illegal, unsuccessful, indefinite, immoral, invisible, unimportant, unfriendly, inconvenient, illogical, impolite, unhappy, impatient, ungrateful, uneducated.

Exercise IX (p. 49)

1. improbable; 2. unfair; 3. unwell, disagreeable; 4. illegible;

5. unsatisfactory.

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