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Homework

Exercice 22 p45
Insert the correct plural in each space below:
1) One pansy- a buncy of pansies
2) One kangaroo- two kangaroos
3) One horseman- four horsemen
4) One brother-in- law- two brothers- in- law
5) One analysis- many analyses.
6) One goose- ten geese.
7) One dynamo- two dynamos.
8) One stratum- many stratums/strata
9) One foot- two feet
10) One taxi- three taxis/taxies
11) one larva- a lot of larvas/larvae
12) one calf- four calves
13) one archipelago- two archipelagos/ archipelagoes
14) one fish- five fishes
15) one man-servant- three man-servants/men-servants
16) one bacillus- a lot of bacilli
17) one penny- five pennies/pence -
18) one loaf- three loaves
19) one cloth- a lot of cloths/clothes
20) one editor-in- chief- two editors-in-chief.
21) one sheep- two sheeps
22) one attorney-general-two attorney-generals
23) one genius- a lot of – gemuises/genii
24) one compass- three compasses
25) one bedroom- two bedrooms
26) one grief- many griefs
27) one tomato- four tomato/tomatoes
28) one criterion- five criteria
29) one passer-by- many passers- by
30) one chimney-three chimneys

23. Change the nouns in the following sentences from singular to


plural: (here are just the answers )
1. The leaves fell from the trees.
1) The boys have knives
2) The policemen caught the thieves
3) The feet of the deers crushed the flowers
4) The women was carrying a babies
5) The little children saw sheeps in the fields
6) Our cats have just caught mice.
7) The men looked at the books on the shelves.
8) The thieves stole watches and radios.
9) The wolves killed the donkeys
10) The old men sold the bulls and the geese
11) The boys made an entries in his diaries
12) Dark clouds hangs over the valleys
13) The housewives feeds the babies
14) The Englishmen sang a solo those evenings
15) There is chimneys on the roofs of these houses
16) The bakers put the loaves on the shelves
17) The bulls were grazing near that bushes
18) The geologists studied the volcanos
19) The women put potatoes, tomatoes, fish and heads of
cabbages on the tables.
20) This Chinese have dozens boxes of matches.
21) The feet of his children are badly hurt.

24.Use a/an or some to finish he sentence ,, I want…”


Some meat
A picture
A chair
Some water
A newspaper
A knife
A bottle of juice
Some help
Some wool
A glass of wine
An answer
Some cups of coffee
A holiday
Some food
Cushion
Some money
A roll
Some cheese
Some apples
A soup
An notebook
Match
Whiskey
Pencil
Fork
Egg
Orange
Tea
Handkerchief
Ice-cream

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