Possessive case

Task I. Choose the right variant.

1. Liz / the text-book

1. Liz’s text-book

2. The text-book of Liz

3. The Liz’s text-book

2. the roof / the house

1. the house’s roof

2. the roof of the house

3. the rabbits / the cage

1. the rabbits’s cage

2. the rabbits’ cage

3. the cage of the rabbits

4. our dog / a new kennel

1. our dog’s new kennel

2. a new kennel of our dog

5. The Smiths / the car

1. the Smiths’ car

2. the Smiths’s car

3. the car of the Smiths

6. Charles / the book

1. Charles’ book

2. The book of Charles

3. Charles’s book

7. a bird / a nest

1. a nest of a bird

2. a bird’s nest

8. those men / the umbrellas

1. those men’ umbrellas

2. those men’s umbrellas

3. the umbrellas of those men

9. my parents / the friends

1. the friends of my parents

2. my parents’s friends

3. my parents’ friends

10. Tom and Alice / the car

1. Tom’s and Alice’s car

2. Tom and Alice’s car

Plural of nouns

Task I. Give the plural of the following nouns, if possible, and translate them.

A knife, this box, a foot, a hospital, that lady, a son-in-law, the potato, a sportsman, that sheep, a half, a brush, a handkerchief, a sofa, this phoneme, a mouse, a toy, a king, a deer, the shelf, a goose, an ox.

Task II. Make plural form. Remember, only one variant is possible.

1	A baby	a. babys
		b. babies
2	A pencil	a. penciles
		b. pencils
3	A man	a. man
		b. men
		c. mans
4	An umbrella	a. umbrellas
		b. umbrellas
5	A city	a. citys
		b. cities
		c. cityes
6	A mouse	a. mousse
		b. mice
		c. mouss
7	money	a. moneys
		b. -
		c. moneies
8	A watch	a. watches
		b. watchs
		c. watch
9	A child	a. childs
		b. childes
		c. children
10	A foot	a. foots
		b. footes
		c. feet
11	jeans	a. jeans
		b. jeans
		c. jeans
12	A potato	a. potatoes
		b. potatos
		c. potates
13	A roof	a. roofs
		b. roves
		c. roofes
14	A toothbrush	a. teethbrush
		b. toothbrushes
		c. teethbrushes
15	A boy-friend	a. boys-friends
		b. boy-friends
		c. boys friend
16	A passer-by	a. passers-by
		b. passer-bys
		c. passer-bies
17	A sheep	a. sheep
		b. sheeps
		c. sheepes
18	Advice	a. advices
		b. adfvises
		c. -
19	A mother-in-law	a. mother-in-laws
		b. mothers-in-laws
		c. mothers-in-law
20	News	a. newes
		b. news
		c. -

Task III. Give the plural of the following sentences.

1. This mouse is white.

2. That woman is my cousin. She is a teacher.

3. He works as a postman at our company.

4. Send the fax to him.

5. The firm didn’t pay duty in time.

Task IV. Give the singular of the following sentences.

1. Children receive a lot of pleasure of this game.

2. My friends like meat and do not like fish.

3. They remember everything.

Task V. Choose the right variant.

1. My hair … clean.

1. is

2. are

2. Can I borrow your scissors? Mine … not sharp enough.

1. is

2. are

3. There … hair in my soup.

1. is

2. is a

3. are

4. I don’t want … or help.

1. advices

2. an advice

3. advice

5. Knowledge … power.

1. is

2. are

6. I need my glasses. Where … they?

   1. Is

   2. are

7. In summer we eat a lot of …

   1. fruit

   2. fruits

8. The police … to interview Fred about the accident.

   1. want

   2. wants

9. Money … not everything.

   1. is

   2. are

10. Mathematics … an exact science.

    1. is

    2. are

11. The United States … a violent history.

    1. has

    2. have