Упражнения

Упражнение 1. Поставьте следующие существительные в форму мно­жественного числа (не забудьте, что перед множе­ственным числом неопределенный артикль нужно опустить):

A. a pen, a class, a story, a road, a day, a cat, a bush, a desk, a table, a plate, a fox, a room, a lady, a knife, a chair, a bus, a hero, a match, a way, a house, a family, a flag, a town, a wolf, a country, a lion, a park, a play, a dictionary, a thief, a key.

B. woman, duck, lake, photo, quiz, tomato, play, sheep, uncle, pony, leaf, belief, face, postman, toy, tooth, kerchief, mouse, child, umbrella, curriculum, magazine, knife, life, path, class, roof, grass, cup, city, phenomenon.

Упражнение 2. Поставьте следующие существительные в форму мно­жественного числа (обратите внимание на артик­ли: неопределенный артикль во множественном числе опускается, определенный артикль сохраня­ется):

Ababy, a plant, a lemon, a peach, a banana, a brush, a star, a mountain, a tree, a shilling, a king, the waiter, the queen, a man, the man, a woman, the woman, an eye, a shelf, a box, the city, a boy, a goose, the watch, a mouse, a dress, a toy, the sheep, a tooth, a child, the ox, a deer, the life, a to­mato, a secretary, a crowd, the airport, a theatre, the tornado, a shop, the tragedy.

Упражнение 3. Поставьте существительное в форму множе­ственного числа:

Woman, duck, lake, photo, quiz, tomato, play, sheep, uncle, pony, leaf, belief, face, postman, toy, tooth, kerchief, mouse, child, umbrella, curriculum, magazine, knife, life, path, class, roof, grass, cup, city, phenomenon.

Mother-in-law, butterfly, reading room, standard lamp, inkpot, tape recorder, son-in-law, exercise book, suitcase, blackbird, passer-by, ex-president.

Упражнение 4. Переведите существительные и скажите, какое это число:

Means, child, television, food, table, feet, papers, mice, fish, horse, trouble, scissors, fruit, advice, traffic, furniture, bread, watch, men, teeth, pajamas, weather, sum, clothes, money, clock, oxen, sheep, police, work, hair, news, workers, spectacles, contents, economics, phonetics, sports, goods, progress, glasses, trousers, phenomena.

Запомните:

This is — these are

That is — those are

There is — there are