Write the plural forms of the given nouns. Add your own examples to each column.

Car, child, country, family, house, life, loaf, person, potato, series, sheep, watch, relative, fly, half, kiss, knife, fish, wife, sky, aunt.

+ -S	+ -ES	+ -IES	+ -VES	no change	irregular

 

2. Use the given suffixes to make new words denoting professions or doers of the action:

-an, -ant, -ar, -er, -ian, -ist, -or.

E.g.: Drive      driver, therapy      therapist

1. A person who takes professional photographs - ________

2. A person who smokes a lot - ___________

3. I can’t play the piano. I’m not a - _________

4. A person who acts in amateur theatre - ________

5. Toby assists me. He is my - _________

6. A person who donates blood to sick people - __________

7. Anna is studying history. She is a fine - ________

 

Use the following suffixes to make nouns from the given words.

-hood, -dom, - ship, - ment, -ance, - ence, - ty, -ity, -age.

Neighbor      neighborhood

1. As always, she presented a stage picture of beauty, grace and ______(generous).

2. The king promised a princess’s hand in_______ (marry) to whoever slayed the dragon.

3. He loved retelling key moments in Sinclair family history, enlarging their ____________ (important).

4. To every reader it is obvious that his_________ (dependent) on God was his safeguard and his light.

5. Our ___________(brother) is too small to lose any one of us.

6. He needed to be sure that people feared his_________ (cruel) more than they craved __________(free).

7. And I just want to thank you for all that, for your ________(friend), your understanding—that is something mankind needs desperately.

8. They were light on what you’d now call “career skills” and heavy on “personal __________(develop) “.

 

4. According to the number, nouns can be countable and uncountable. For example, pizza is an uncountable noun and if we want to highlight the number, we need to use a word of measurement – a slice of pizza, three slices of pizza, etc. Complete the descriptions with the given words.

a bar, a bag, a loaf, a carton, a jar, a packet (X2), a piece, a tin, a kilo, some

 Usually when I go to supermarket I buy ______of rice, _______of tomatoes, _____ eggplants and _______of lentils. I also need _______ of milk,________of bananas, a papaya and _______of bread for breakfast tomorrow. Moreover, I want to make a cake. So, I have to buy_______of chocolate, _______of flour and _____of honey. I want to give ______of this cake to my neighbour. 

Choose the correct words in italics using possessive case of nouns. In one place both answers are possible.

E.g.: boy’s book, boys’ books, the windows of the house

It was the end of the working week / a working week’s end and several of s decided we wanted a good night out. So, John, Lou, Charles, Charles’ / Charles’s cousin and I got into the car of Lou / Lou’s car and went to London Soho district / London’s Soho district looking for an unusual restaurant. We found one. Garlic and Shots is a really interesting place to eat. Clearly, the idea of the restaurant / the restaurant’s idea is that all of the food contains garlic, and I mean all of the food! You can get garlic bread, garlic pasta and even garlic ice cream! The food’s variety / variety of the food is amazing, but of course you have to be a garlic lover / garlic’s lover. We all had two courses, drinks and coffee (garlic coffee of course) and the bill’s size / size of the bill wasn’t bad for central London.

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

Study the following table and do the exercises below.

Any	Some	No
Negative sentences E.g.: We don’t have any sugar. Interrogative sentences E.g.: Do you know any good lawyers?	Affirmative sentences E.g.: He has some interesting books to read. Polite offers E.g.: Would you like some tea?	Negative sentences Ex: I have no idea how to resolve this problem.
PEOPLE	THINGS	PLACES
Someone/ somebody	Something	Somewhere
Anyone/ anybody	Anything	Anywhere
No one/ nobody	Nothing	Nowhere
Everyone/ everybody	Everything	Everywhere

Any or some?

1. Go and ask him for _____ more paper. I haven’t _____in my desk.

2. Have you got ____sugar? - I expect we have. Yes, there is _____sugar in this bowl.

3. Can I give the child ____ fruit?

4. _____people just don’t know how to mind their own business.

5. Were there _____objections?

6. What book shall I bring to you? - _____you like.

7. There isn’t ____ explanation for this.

 

Use the pronouns from the table above to fill in the gaps.

1. I want to tell you _______.

2. Is there _____in the basket? - No, it’s empty.

3. Can ______ translate these sentences?

4. I’ve prepared ______ for dinner which you’ll like very much.

5. I’m afraid he knows ______ about it.

6. Would you like ______ to start with before you order the main course?

7. I know ______who can help you.

8. I’m sure ______ had taken your bag.

9. Is there _______ here who can speak Japanese?

10. There was ______ in the room. It was dark.