Plural of the nouns

Exercise 1. Make the following nouns plural:

A.

Family - ____________, woman - ___________, duck - ____________, lake - ___________, photo - ____________, quiz - ____________, tomato - _____________, play - ____________, sheep - ___________, uncle - ____________, pony - ____________, leaf - _____________, belief - ___________, face___________, postman - ______________, toy - ____________, tooth - __________, kerchief - ______________, mouse - _________, child - _____________, umbrella - ______________, curriculum - ________________, magazine - ______________, knife - _________, life - __________, path - __________, class - _________, roof - ______, grass - __________, cup - ________, city - __________, phenomenon - ________________.

B.

mother-in-law - _______________, butterfly - ____________, reading room - ______________, standard lamp - ________________, inkpot - ___________, tape recorder - ________________, son-in-law - ________________, exercise book - _______________, suitcase - _____________, blackbird - ____________, passer-by - ______________, ex-president - __________________.

Exercise 2. Read the following words in the singular

rooms, moments, pipes, plays, years, storms, kitchens, stockings, pockets, clocks, answers, replies, feelings, rains, nights, husbands, stars, children, actions, men, geese, sheep, ships, drops, beliefs, days, trains, roads, oceans, seas, continents, islands, voices, teeth, phenomena, curricula.

Exercise 3. Is it singular or plural?

means

food

television

table

feet

papers

fish

horse

trouble

fruit

advice

traffic

furniture

bread

watch

teeth

pyjamas

weather

clothes

money

clock

sheep

police

work

news

workers

spectacles

economics

phonetics

child

sports

information

progress

scissors

goods

data

glasses

men

ship

sum

trousers

oxen

mice

hair

paper

contents

phenomena

Exercise 4. Use the verbs in the correct form:

1. My watch (to be) _____ten minutes fast. 2. These data (to be) _____ not accurate. 3. No news (to be) _____ good news. 4. Mathe­matics (to be) _____ my favourite subject when I was at school. 5. Money (to do) _____ not make you happy. 6. Your clothes (to hang) ______ on the chair. 7. The goods (to have) ______ arrived. 8. The pyjamas (to be) _____ too short. 9. Your advice (to have) ______ helped me greatly. 10. How many pieces of furniture (to be) _____ there in your living room? 11. In England postmen (to wear) _____ a uniform. 12. Mice (to be) ______ also domestic animals. 13. Paper (to be) _____ very expensive today. 14. Your hair (to need) ______ cutting. 15. There (to be) _____a lot of different fruits at the greengrocer's.

Exercise 5. Translate into English:

1. Это явление еще неизвестно. _________________________________________________ 2. Он перепробо­вал много разных работ и в конце концов стал акте­ром. ______________ _____________________________________________________________________________3. У нее красивые длинные волосы. _____________________________________________ 4. У них на ферме гуси, утки, овцы и козы, а еще есть пруд, где много рыбы. Я поймал две рыбки. ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Часы на стене по­казывают полночь. ___________________________________________ 6. За ним гналась полиция. ____________________________________________________ 7. Ко­гда он пришел домой, семья ужинала. _______________________________________ 8. На улице было мало прохожих. _______________________________________________ 9. Женщины и дети выехали из города. _________________________________________ 10. Я ищу работу. ________________________________________________________ 11. Народы разных стран стремятся к миру. _____________________________________ 12. 10 рублей — небольшая сумма денег. __________________________________________