Legal

English
Course
Reviews of Noun
Reviews of Articles
A. Review of Nouns
1. Singular Countable Nouns
are used after a/an, one, this, that, a single, another, each, and every
Example:
a Policeman/ an attorney
that book
one courtroom
another judge
each jury
every law student
2. Plural Countable
nouns may take –S/es endings or come in irregular forms
Example:
Judges
Courtrooms
Public Attorneys
Lawyers
Policemen/Police women
Jurors
3. Uncountable nouns
generally do not take plural form (blood, Coffee, etc.) they may have
-S ending ( Politics, Economics, news etc.) but they take singular verbs
and may after the following words:
• All
• Much
• Some
• A little
• Plenty of
• An amount of
• 4. Nouns may refer to people or things
President Presidency
Minister Ministry
Lawyer Law
Prisoner Prison
Murder Murderer
Prosecutor Prosecution
Exercise
1. The murderer received a _______________ of twenty years in prison.
2. None of the _______________ wants to testify in the murder trial
because they are afraid the suspect will kill them when he gets out of
prison.
3. Before sentencing, the _______________ said that it was the most
horrible crime he had ever heard of.
4. Many old people are afraid of becoming _______________ of crime,
but studies show the elderly are actually the least likely members of
society to be attacked or robbed
5. The _______________ had to drop its case when its only witness
died.
Answer: Victims, Prosecution, sentence, witnesses, judge
Reviews of Articles
1. The articles a/an is used when reffering to on spesific things. The article “a
is used with nouns starting with consonant sounds while an with vowel
sounds
a Judge
a police woman
a President
a university
an honest policeman
an election
2. The article the is used
 when referring to specific things
the book
the lawyer
the Courtroom
the sun, the sahara, the north pole
• When referring to things in general or representing a class
the orchid, the sharks ( sharks in general)
• When denoting a group of people having the condition described by
adjective
the poor the rich the brave
• With superlatives
the highest building, the prettiest girl
• With words such as first, next, last, same, and only
the next meeting, the same court room, the first class
EXERCISE
1. Find mistakes in the following sentence

• Two gun massacres that occurred in Alabama and western Texas in the
past four days left 12 people dead and brought the total number of mass
shootings in America in an first eight months of this year to 19. An 14-
year-old boy confessed to fatally shooting five members of his family
early Tuesday in a home in Elkmont, Alabama, police said. killings
followed an gun rampage in western Texas over Labor Day weekend that
left seven people dead and more than 20 injured, officials said.
• "We are now at almost every two weeks, active shooter in this country,"
Christopher Combs, special agent in charge of the FBI field office in
San Antonio, Texas, said during news conference on Sunday in
Odessa, Texas, the scene of one of the latest mass shootings in the
nation. The killings in Odessa on Saturday afternoon were allegedly
carried out by a 36-year-old man armed with an AR-type assault rifle
and driving around shooting people at random, including an postal
worker he gunned down during a carjacking, police said. Police officers
fatally shot an man outside a movie theater after he sped toward a
barricade and a officer in an SUV rammed the stolen U.S. Postal
Service mail van he allegedly stole, causing it to spin out and crash,
authorities said.