terrible climate
clever person
2. beautiful language
8.
difficult job
beautiful suitcase
difficult work
3. elegant clothes
9.
fresh bread
elegant dress
fresh loaf
4. heavy rainfall
10. delicious food
heavy shower
delicious meal
5. healthy cow
11. horrrible song
healthy cattle
horrible music
6. awful rubbish
12. tough beef
awful mess
tough steak
8.Give the plural of the following nouns if possible.
1. a lottery
11.
petrol
21.
a species
2. a fisherman
12.
a chef
22.
a carp
3. a fish
13.
information
23.
a tooth
4. a series
14.
a foot
24.
a cuckoo
5. a Japanese
15.
weather
25.
a taxi
6. progress
16.
a tomato
26.
a menu
7. a person
17.
a means
27.
toast
8. a woman
18.
a photo
28.
a mongoose
9. advice
19.
a leaf
29.
a disco
10. a mouse
20.
an ox
30.
a Swiss
a class-mate
a forget-me-not
a grown-up
a man-of-war
a hanger-on
a man-servant
a boy-friend
a merry-go-round
an office-block
a mother-in-law
a cupful
a passer-by
a court-martial
a woman-driver
a school-inspector
9. Complete the table. Note that some of these words of foreign origin have regular plurals.
Singular
Plural
Singular
Plural
1.
cacti
13.
memoranda
2. analysis
14. stadium
3.
stimuli
15. museum
4.
strata
16.
addenda
5. datum
17.
radii
6. curriculum
18. drama
7. basis
19. genius
8. fungus
20.
appendices
9.
genera
21. axis
10. index
22.
media
11.
crises
23. album
12.
criteria
24.
phenomena
10. Comment on the use of uncountable nouns in bold type.
1. Information rules the world.
2. Newspapers and television don't always provide accurate and reliable information.
3. We hope the information will remain secret.
4. If advice is needed, ask one of our staff.
5. Did you follow the advice I gave you ?
6. Jackie needs a piece of practical advice.
7. Good advice can be given, good name cannot be given.
8. We are all hoping for good news.
9. The good news is that he did get an Oscar.
10. They wore boots and galoshes in wet weather.
11. He hopes there's big money in this new business.
12. This machine doesn't give change. Please have the right money ready.
13. Bad money always comes back.
14. The weather proved to be as good as the weatherman had predicted.
15. We all look forward to warmer weather.
16. To recover completely, he must come back to work, but it shouldn't be hard work.
17. Love is an ideal thing; marriage is a real thing, but it is a lottery.
18. Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
11. Choose the first or the second word in the following sentences.
2. Play/a play and no work will make you lazy.
3. History/a history repeats itself.
4. Grammar/a grammar is taught deeply in this school.
5. My father has French grammar/an old French grammar.
6. Faith/a faith helps people to live.
7. Nature/a nature should be protected against pollution.
8. He was a man who lived for pleasure/a pleasure.
9. He has nature/a nature like his grandfather's.
10. It was pleasure/a pleasure to talk to you.
11. Can you do me favour/a favour?
12. Get down to business/a business, all of you!
13. Charity/a charity begins at home.
14. You should study law/a law at university.
15. Language/a language is unique to humans.
16. To succeed in life you need will/a will.