EXERCISES. actress daughter lioness nuns sister aunt goddess nephew prince uncle

Exercise 1.

Complete the following sentences using the nouns given before.

actress	daughter	lioness	nuns	sister
aunt	goddess	nephew	prince	uncle
bridegroom	heroine	nieces	queens	waitress

Model:

Nick’s brother is a programmer and his sister is an accountant.

1.	My aunt is very nice and my ____ has a wonderful sense of humour.
2.	My ____ is a little boy of five; my niece is a little girl of three.
3.	Nowadays few men become monks and few women become____.
4.	Mike is an actor and his wife is an ____.
5.	Tom and Ann work in a restaurant; he is a waiter and she is a ____.
6.	In fairy tales the handsome ____ usually marries the beautiful princess.
7.	Everyone expects the hero of the story to marry the ____.
8.	We went to the circus and saw a lion and a ____.
9.	I don’t think that many people know the names of the kings and ____ of England.
10.	I took a photo of the bride and ____ at the wedding.
11.	My cousin has a son called David and a ____ called Kate.
12.	My uncle and ____ went on holiday to Rome.
13.	I enjoy being an uncle. I have two ____ and three nephews.
14.	In mythology, Mars is the god of war; Nike is the the winged ____ of victory.

Exercise 2.

Underline the noun in each sentence and write ‘C’ or ‘U’ to show whether the noun is countable or uncountable.

Model:

This is an excellent drawing.

C

1.	Would you like to see my photos?
2.	I eat two apples every day.
3.	I ran out of petrol.
4.	Add a little more flour.
5.	I need two clean glasses.
6.	A lot of paper is wasted.
7.	Hope keeps me going.
8.	He has no hope of passing the examination.
9.	How much milk did you buy?
10.	Where are my two new shirts?
11.	I’ll put some more coal.
12.	Too much cake isn’t good for you.
13.	I’ve bought some cloth.

Exercise 3.

Write the plural of the following nouns.

address	datum	half	life	office	radio
beach	dictionary	handkerchief	light	ox	roof
boot	father-in-law	hotel	man	passer-by	sister-in-law
bottle	foot	island	medium	pen-friend	shelf
cinema	forget-me-not	knife	means	phenomenon	species
clock	formula	lake	month	photo	tape
crisis	guitar	leaf	mouse	potato	woman

Exercise 4.

Rewrite these sentences in the plural making necessary changes.

Model:

This cherry is very sour. – These cherries are very sour.

1.	I’ve lost my key.
2.	This knife is blunt.
3.	The leaf has fallen from the tree.
4.	The roof has been repaired.
5.	We have a Henry in our family. – We have two___.
6.	Which volcano is active?
7.	This tooth hurts me.
8.	Can you see that sheep?
9.	A policeman is busy all the time.
10.	The farmer is going to sell that goose.
11.	Which aircraft has just taken off?

Exercise 5.

Use is, are, hasorhave.

1.	The acoustics of the new concert hall ____ excellent.
2.	This crossroads ____ dangerous.
3.	There ____ several crossroads in this district.
4.	Acoustics ____ a subject which studies sound.
5.	Our organization headquarters ____ in the center of the city.
6.	There ____ many series of books on animals.
7.	The statistics in this report ____ inaccurate.
8.	Many species of tigers ____ disappeared.
9.	That species ____ new to me.
10.	Our works ____ got a well-equipped laboratory.
11.	My maths ____ improving.
12.	There ____ a lot of people at the football match.
13.	The police ____ interested in this case.
14.	The military ____ called in to deal with the rioting.
15.	The committee ____ meeting now.

Exercise 6.

Complete the sentence with a singular or plural form of a word in the list.

cloth	custom	expense	good	surrounding
compass	damage	glass	poultry	work

1.	It is our ____ to give presents at Christmas.
2.	The ____ Officer opened my case at the frontier.
3.	It will cost £80 to repair the ____.
4.	Buying a new car is a great ____.
5.	Illness, holidays, and other ____ reduced his bank balance to almost nothing.
6.	I can’t read without my ____.
7.	Would you like a ____ of beer?
8.	I’ve bought a pair of ____ to draw circles.
9.	Sailors must have a good ____ to find their way.
10.	Jane always wears beautiful ____.
11.	He buys and sells leather ____.
12.	You don’t see animals in their natural ____ in the zoo.
13.	The ____ are being fed.
14.	Machines now do much of the ____ formerly done by man
15.	The steel ____ was closed for the Christmas holidays.

Exercise 7.

Replace the of-phrase by the noun in the possessive case.

1.	The wife of our professor.
2.	The order of the commander-in-chief.
3.	The novels of Dickens.
4.	The ball of the boys.
5.	The flat of my father-in-law.
6.	The rights of women.
7.	A distance of three miles.
8.	The crew of the ship.
9.	The theatres of Minsk.
10.	An interval of three hours.
11.	The rays of the sun.
12.	The population of Scotland.
13.	The father of Ann and John.
14.	The children of my sister Mary.
15.	The house of Mr. Smith.

Exercise 8.

A. Only where possible, use an apostrophe to show possession in these sentences.

Model:

That’s the voice of a man. – That’s a man’s voice.

1.	I can’t see the bottom of the box.
2.	That’s the decision of the committee.
3.	It’s the fault of no one.
4.	This is a copy of the poetry of Keats.
5.	That’s the leg of the table.
6.	Where’s the key of the car?
7.	That’s the bell of the village that you can hear.
8.	These are stables of the horses.

B. Join the two nouns. Sometimes you have to use –‘sor–s’; and sometimes you have to useof.

Model:

the owner/that car –the owner of that car

1.	a delay/an hour
2.	a journey/two days
3.	the price/success
4.	the surface/the earth
5.	the shade/the tree
6.	the children/Peter and Mary
7.	the newspaper/yesterday
8.	the economic policy/the government

Exercise 9.

Put in seven missing possessive apostrophes.

No English author of the 19th century was more popular than the novelist Charles Dickens. With areporters eye for the details of daily life Dickens created a body of work that brought him worldwide fame.

Charles Dickens was the second of eight children. In 1817 the family settled in the town of Chatham. These years were the happiest of Dickenschildhood.

Charles Dickens father, a clerk in a navy office, earned enough to provide a middle-class lifestyle for his family, but he was a habitually poor manager of money. In 1824 he was sent with his family to prison for debt. Charles did not go to prison, but he was pulled from school and put to work in a factory. This period had a lasting impact on Dickens character and his art. His familys financial troubles and his unpleasant experience with factory life gave Charles a sympathetic knowledge of the lives and trials of the working class.

At the age of 15 he became a clerk in asolicitors office. Another influential event of this period was his rejection as suitor to Maria Beadnell, a bankersdaughter, because his family and prospects were unsatisfactory.

Exercise 10.

Make a noun + noun compound.

1.	a strap you find on a watch
2.	a hole where you put a key
3.	a racket for playing tennis
4.	change in the climate
5.	a book you get from the library
6.	fumes which come from exhausts
7.	an engineer who knows how computers work
8.	a directory which contains a list of telephone numbers
9.	a bill you receive for your use of electricity

Exercise 11.

Rewrite each phrase underlined as a noun + noun compound. You may have to change plural and singular forms.

Model:

South of the Highlands are the Grampian Mountains, the highest range of mountains in the British Isles. – mountain range

1.	Temperatures in areas of desert can reach 50°C in summer.
2.	England's supplies of energy are used in a variety of industries.
3.	Over a third of the country’s income from exports comes from agricultural products.
4.	Australia is the largest exporter of wool in the world.
5.	The program of reforestation helped retain the population in the area by providing employment.
6.	Crops are watered with systems of irrigation.
7.	Great Britain is not very rich in resources of minerals.
8.	Minerals produce high earnings from exports.
9.	London is the largest city and has an important district for business.
10.	The production of vegetables is often done in greenhouses.
11.	In the early 21st century the Welsh government took steps to revitalize the economy and bring the standard of living in line with the rest of the country.

Exercise 12.

Complete the dialogues using one of the words in the box. Sometimes you need the plural.

chair	glass	information	money	problem
furniture	holiday	luggage	post	time

1.	- I wish I hadn’t gone to see that film.
- Yes, indeed. That was a waste of ____ and ____.
2.	- Which girl did you ask for ____?
- The young girl. I wish I’d seen Miss Smith about it.
- Yes, of course. She would have been informed.
3.	- Did you have a nice ____?
- Not really. I often wished I’d brought my car to the Continent. If I had, it would have solved a lot of ____.
4.	- They’ve bought one or two pieces of ____
- Have they got rid of that awful sofa?
- Yes. And they’ve bought some new ____ for the kitchen.
5.	- Well, here we are. This is our hotel, isn’t it?
- Yes, there’s the name: Prince’s Court Hotel. Shall I look after the ____, or will you?
6.	- Has the ____ come yet, Jane?
- Yes, Peter and there’s been a letter from Helen.
- Have you read it?
- Yes, of course, I have.
- Well, just tell me what she says. I’ve left my ____ upstairs.

АРТИКЛЬ (THE ARTICLE)

Артикли являются основными определителями имен существительных. В английском языке имеются два вида артикля: определенный the и неопределенный a/an.

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