homework

THE NOUN

EXERCISE № 1. Make the following nouns plural.

A. Pin, hat, fox, baby, day, potato, volcano, piano, photo, knife, roof, half, leaf, cliff, chief, life, family, queue, bath, berry, valley, century, salmon, taxi, person, penny, watch, virtuoso, lily, woodworm, child, goose, man, foot, mouse, woman, sheep, person, deer, ox, tooth, ship, fish, fireman, mouse, swine, house, louse, goose, mongoose, means, series, species, aircraft, story, play, glass, flag, photo, name, match, knife, bush, chief, page, radio, roof, prize, set, key, factory, wolf, class, cup, city;

B. German, Swiss, Japanese, Maltese, Portuguese, Chinese, Milanese;

C.Criterion, datum, formula, crisis, stimulus, index, phenomenon, medium, oasis, nucleus, memorandum, basis, radius, analysis, symposium, hypothesis;

D. Passer-by, mother-in-law, room-mate, forget-me-not, merry-go-round, fellow-worker, man-of-war, school-inspector, commander-in-chief, boy-messenger, personnel-manager, woman-driver, man-servant, hanger-on, face-lift, spoonful, cupful, boyfriend, grown-up, office-block, workmate, fellow-worker, merry-go-round, man-of-war, passer-by, sister-in-law, forget-me-not, room-mate, lily-of-the-valley, ticket-holder, commander-in-chief, governor-general.

EXERCISE № 2. Make the following nouns plural.

A. Army, baby, bag, bed, beer, bench, bird, box, boy, brother, brother-in-law, brush, bush, cage, cake, child, chop, college, country, day, daughter, deer, dish, dog, dress, egg, exercise, face, family, fish, foot, goose, half, handkerchief, hospital, house, housewife, knife, lady, lamp, lawn, leaf, library, man, mass, match, mother-in-law, mouse, niece, nursery, orange, page, pantry, parrot, party, passer-by, patch, penny, phoneme, piano, policeman, potato, postman, roof, saleswoman, sentence, shelf, sheep, sister-in-law, sitting-room, sofa, son-in-law, sportsman, story, study, suffix, swine, tape-recorder, tea-pot, test, text, tie, toast, tomato, toy, turkey, wife, waitress, wolf, woman, writer, woman-servant.

B. Basis, bath, birth, bunch, clergyman, court martial, crisis, criterion, cry, datum, downfall, echo, enemy, Englishman, extremity, finger-tip, forget-me-not, formula, fox, genius, hearth, hero, joy, journey, key, lie, looker-on, loss, man-of-war, mischief-maker, ox, penknife, pie, portfolio, possibility, rock, ship, spy, stepdaughter, thief, volcano, youth.

EXERCISE № 3. Make the following nouns singular.

Children, women, lorries, bodies, men, brushes, knives, keys, colonies, halves, ministries, flies, matches, universities, babies, watches, lives, ways, ladies, shelves, copies, libraries, wolves, tomatoes, potatoes, bushes.

EXERCISE № 4. Replace the o/-phrases by the noun in the Possessive Case:

1. The wife of Doctor Sandford.

2. The elder sister of Helen.

3. The friend of my brother-in-law.

4. The best suit of my hus­band.

5. The novels of Dickens.

6. The hat of my sister-in-law.

7. The answers of the students.

8. The tools of the workers.

9. The dress of the girl.

10. The dresses of the girls.

EXERCISE № 5. Replace the of-phrases by the noun in the Possessive Case:

1. The face of the woman is attractive.

2. The faces of these women are attractive.

3. The coat of my father-in-law is grey.

4. The coats of the passers-by are wet.

5. The voice of the man is too loud.

6. The voices of the men sound harsh.

7. The toys of the child are on the floor.

8. The toys of the children are on the floor.

EXERCISE № 6. Change the italicized word from singular to plural. Then make the necessary change in the form of the verb.

1) My book is on the desk.
2) That man speaks English well.
3) That boy plays in the park.
4) This child plays with the dog.
5) This mouse runs into the hole.
6) There is another knife is on the table.
7) The wolf runs after the deer.
8) This bus arrives on time.
9) The cat runs after the mouse.
10) My class begins at one o'clock.
11) This dress is pretty.
12) That pencil is on the desk.