Ex.2B. State whether the nouns in bold type are proper or common

1. The Imperial State Crown of the Queen of England is normally kept in the Tower. 2. This church has a tower attached to it. 3. The English Channel is the narrowest area of water between England and France. 4. The main channels had been closed by enemy submarines. 5. You are like a Figaro. One minute here, another there. 6. I’ve bought a Kodak, but I don’t know how it works. 7. In the art circles he was known as a Metsenat.

8. Wellington defeated Napoleon’s army in the battle of Waterloo.

9. Wellingtons are rubber boots. Americans call them galoshes.

10. What had happened became a Waterloo Bridge for him. 11. He is a real Paparazzi in everything that concerns making money.

12. Rita Brown writes like an American Evelyn Waugh. 13. He is thrilled at his new buy: a classic Mercedes Benz. 14. Antony Marshal lives outside the city. Every morning he drives to the City where he works as a staff manager. 15. The Red-White-and-Blue Union Jack hung out of every window, fluttering in the breeze.

16. Degas and Monet were her husband’s favourite artists, and both were well represented in their house. 17. He glanced at the list of her art collection. Sisleys, Monets, Manets, a Dali, Renoirs and a Degas. It was a fabulous collection. 18. Carl Fabergé was Russia’s Imperial jeweller. 19. What a beautiful Easter egg! – Yes, it is a Fabergé. 20. The two friends bought a Johnny Walker to celebrate the event. 21. Kurt Vonnegut is writing with the half-embittered, half-amused voice of a later-day Mark Twain. 22. Tonight Samantha wore highly polished black Oxfords.

Ex. 3. Explain the origin and the meaning of the following common nouns. Use them in the sentences of your own.

A Dracula, a Cartier, a Sony, a Camel, a Marlborough, a Reebok, a Mauzer, a Lovelace, a Webster, a Don Juan, the White House, a Barbie, a Stradivarius, an Oscar, a Walkman, bermudas, a Xerox, a Newton.

Ex.4. State whether the nouns in bold type denote countable or uncountable objects. Translate the sentences into Russian and compare the number in Russian and in English.

1. The box is made of iron and has a tricky lock. 2. The fever within her was like a red hot iron pressing upon her breast. 3. There was a moon, but it was still low in the sky. It gave sufficient light for Victoria. 4. He saw a light in one window on the ground floor. 5. “Will you do me a favour?” “With pleasure. ” 6. A pleasure to give a good wine to a young woman who looked so well, who knew how to dress with charming manners, quite distinguished—a pleasure to entertain her. 7. The thought of her was like champagne itself. 8. The book gives the much food for thought. 9. Health is a priceless possession. 10. Of all prosperity their respective healths naturally concerned them (the Forsytes) most. 11. The boys stood on the bank throwing stones into the river. 12. When I think of this my heart turns to stone. 13. He (James) stretched out his hand to meet that of a dapper clean-shaven man, with hardly a hair on his head. 14. Her hair has gone quite grey. 15. When the dynamite explodes in the water the fish are killed. It is forbidden. 16. I prefer fish for supper. 17. All the water rushed out and the reeds were full of fishes flopping around in them.

Ex.5 State the morphological composition of the following nouns.

Snow, sandstone, impossibility, widower, opinion, exclamation, passer-by, misunderstanding, inactivity, snowball, kingdom, anticyclone, mother-of-pearl, immobility, might, warmth, succession, ex-president, nurse, misdeed, wisdom, blackbird, attention, policeman, merry-go-round, girlhood, usefulness, fortune, friendship, statesman, brother-in-law, population, fellow-boarder, smelling-salt.