- •Olga a. Berezina, Yelena m. Shpilyuk
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive …………………………………...132
- •6 Foreword предисловие
- •Авторы the article Usage of Articles
- •Bay of Bengal
- •Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- •17 The adjective and the pronoun
- •Some, Any, No
- •Not versus No
- •Much, Many, Few, Little
- •Other, The Other, Another
- •25 Different Meanings and Usage of: All, Each, Either, Neither, Every, Both
- •31 The adjective and the adverb
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •Present Simple
- •II. The Past Simple Tense
- •III The Future Simple Tense
- •The "Going To" Form
- •II. The Past Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Progressive Tense
- •I. The Present Perfect Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Tense
- •I. The Ptesent Perfect Progressive Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Progressive Tense
- •I. The Past Simple Passive
- •II Present Simple Passive
- •III. The Future Simple Passive
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive
- •V. The Past Progressive Passive
- •VI. The Present Perfect Passive
- •VII. The Past Perfect Passive
- •VIII. The Future Perfect Passive
- •139 The Imperative Mood
- •Modal Verbs can, could
- •May, might
- •Exercise 5
- •149 Must, to be to, to have to
- •Should, ought to
- •Recapitulation of the modal verbs
- •Conditional Sentences
- •II type
- •III type
- •If it were not for ...
- •If it hadn’t been for ... But for ...
- •189 The modal verbs "could" and "might" in conditional sentences
- •Recapitulation of conditional sentences
- •The Complex Object
- •Indirect Speech
- •Modal verbs in indirect speech
- •227 Passive voice in indirect speech
- •Conditional sentences in indirect speech
- •231 Recapitulation of indirect speech
- •Troublesome Verbs
- •244 The Participle
- •246 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •248 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •250 Appendix 3 conditional sentences
Bay of Bengal
Harvard law library
Oxford University
Victoria Lake
Netherlands
Crimea
High Street
Great Lakes
Erie Canal
University of Texas
Hague
Everest
Prado
Straits of Gibraltar
Bahamas
Gulf of Mexico
Ivory Coast
Madagascar
Lake Ladoga
Equator
North Sea
Mediterranian
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THE NOUN
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Plural and singular Usage of Nouns
Exercise 1
Give the plural of the following nouns.
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leaf |
mouse |
country |
piano |
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child |
sheep |
goose |
lady |
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man |
woman |
gooseberry |
crisis |
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tooth |
medium |
deer |
deary |
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knowledge |
fish |
dish |
news |
Exercise 2
Read the following nouns first in the singular and then in the plural:
bag, dog, bird, verb), pan, hen, spoon, noun, room, ring, thing, evening, song, girl, apple, table, article.
tree, pie, cow, fly, lady, baby, teacher, letter, mirror, berry, play, toy, city.
cake, snake, fork, map, lamp, hat, clock, rat, coat, goat, skirt, shirt, plant, sonant, jacket, object, attribute.
shelf, leaf, knife, wife, roof, chief, handkerchief.
bus, class, glass, dress, piece, slice, horse, house, rose, nose, blouse, box, fox, match, bench, bridge, cage, cottage, bush, radish.
man, woman, child, foot, tooth, goose, mouse, ox, fish, trout, fruit, swine, mouse, louse, deer, sheep.
phenomenon, crisis, stimulus, formula, axis, thesis, criterion.
Exercise 3
Give the plural form of the words underlined.
► Pattern: I met a man at the meeting last night.
I met some men at the meeting last night.
I saw a mouse running across the floor.
The baby got a new tooth.
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I need a match.
He cooked a potato for dinner.
The professor is reading a thesis.
I visited a city in the Ukraine.
She photographed a leaf.
I caught a fish.
I saw a sheep in the farmyard.
She talked to a child.
The children hid behind the bush.
In science class we studied about a species of fish.
When I was in the park yesterday, I saw a goose.
When we spoke in the cave, we heard an echo.
He packed a box.
Every day I read in the newspaper about a new crisis in the world.
The wagon is being pulled by an ox.
I told the children a fable about a wolf and a fox.
We read a story about an Indian chief.
At the meeting last night, we were listening to a speech.
In science class, we studied a phenomenon of nature.
Countable and Uncountable Nouns
Exercise 4
A LOT OF is used with both countable and uncountable nouns. Complete the sentences using A LOT OF with the correct form of the noun in brackets.
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1 |
(money) |
He has... |
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2 |
(sandwich) |
They ate... |
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3 |
(good idea) |
That book has... |
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4 |
(bad weather) |
We've been having... |
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5 |
(homework) |
We have... to do tonight. |
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6 |
(good advice) |
She gave me ... |
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16 |
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7 |
(information) |
An encyclopedia contains... |
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8 |
(photograph) |
She took... |
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9 |
(new vocabulary) |
We have learnt... |
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10 |
(luck) |
A gambler needs... |
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11 |
(traffic) |
We were late because there (was/were)... |
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12 |
(courage) |
She has... |
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13 |
(product) |
The company makes... |
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14 |
(beautiful scenery) |
We saw... on our cross-country trip. |