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1. glass — a glass

10. language — a language

2. paper — a paper

11. tin — a tin

3. wood — a wood

12. study — a study

4. iron — an iron

13. light —alight

5. string — a string

14. air — an air

6. coffee — a coffee

15. duck — a duck

7. cloth — a cloth

16. gold — a gold

8. rubber — a rubber

17. play — a play

9. lamb — a lamb

18. thought — a thought

II. Make up exclamatory sentences according to the model:

Good advice. — What good advice! Good idea. — What a good idea!

1. terrible weather

7.

clever people

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.