Revision Exercises

(based on the Introductory Material)

Exercise 1. Make up several questions of different types (including indirect questions) based on the following sentences: 1, 4, 6.

Exercise 2. Make up several sentences on the analogy of sentences 1, 4, 8.

Exercise 3. Comment on the following sentences: 4, 5, 6.

Exercise 4. Develop the following sentences into short situations: 3, 7.

Exercise 5. Build dialogues round the following sentences: 2, 8.

List of Grammatical Difficulties Included,

with Explanations,

Examples from Literature and Exercises

1. The use of some numerals and nouns expressing number

EXAMPLES

1. «How many of these places have you seen?» he demanded. «All of them—a thousand times.» 2. She gave me another five hundred dollars and the name and phone number of a woman in New York through whom I could get work. 3. Named Angel Fish for its very wide fins, the fish lived some 50 million years ago in the sea covering the Padana Valley. 4. Jones rose from the table two thousand dollars the richer. Even then he was moderate in victory. He offered his opponent his revenge and lost five hundred and a few, odd dollars. 5. There are twenty-one thousand francs for you. 6. You’ve blamed me a million times because I can’t give you a child. 7. Nora was giving her first showing of the work she had done in the twenty-one months since we had been at war. 8. When he’s finished his chorus and the band’s having a turn Conroy starts to prance about the stage, twisting and shaking himself as though he’s got half a dozen scorpions up his vest. 9. If she wanted to marry just to be married there were a dozen boys who would jump at the chance. 10. She shook her head. «No, Locky. Not in a thousand years.» «Well, we’re progressing. First you said a million years. Maybe I can get it down to a hundred before I leave.» «A million or a thousand, both mean never.» 11. On a chicken farm where hundreds and even thousands of chickens come out of eggs surprising things sometimes happen. 12. That is one of the most interesting parts of the story. 13. A couple of constables were examining the windows and the geranium beds. 14. The number of rooms was alarming. They both perceived instantly, though neither of them mentioned it, that Christine’s few pieces would barely furnish two of these apartments.

EXPLANATORY NOTES

1. Remember not to use the preposition of after forms like a dozen, three hundred, four thousand, sixteen million and others, where the words dozen, hundred, thousand, million are in the singular.

Remember to use the preposition of after the plural. forms of the same words: dozens of, hundreds of, thousands of, millions of.

2. The word couple is always followed by an of-phrase.

3. Numerals cannot be followed directly by personal pronouns or by word-groups like these children, those cats, my brothers. The of-phrase is the only correct form here.

4. Mind the difference between the following forms:

1. one factory — одна фабрика; one of the factories — одна из фабрик;

2. two factories — две фабрики; two of the factories — две из (некоторого числа фабрик).

5. Remember that in English, unlike Russian, nouns modified by the numerals twenty-one, thirty-one, etc. are used in the plural. Compare: sixty-one books —шестьдесят одна книга, forty-one years — сорок один год.