A means , a scissors, a series, a species, a shorts

1. We don’t wear trousers when it is hot. We wear………………..

2. The train is …..of transport.

3. I want to cut out a dress. I need sharp………………

4. Martin wrote ……………….articles for his newspaper.

5. When we are at the zoo we saw a lot of different………..of bird.

Упражнение 8. Вставьте глагол: в единственном или множественном числе.

1. The jeans my wife bought for me doesn’t/don’t fit me.

2. Physics wasn’t/weren’t my best subject at college.

3. Unfortunately the news was/were bad.

4. The police are/is looking for man who stole jewelries.

5. Three years is/are longenough to be in prison.

6. Where do/does your family live?

7. Spain has/have won all their football matches this season.

8. Many people have/has no cars.

9. I don’t like frosty days. Twenty-five degrees is/are too cold for me.

Упражнение 9. Составьте предложения по данному образцу:

Model The woman was 45. She was a forty-five year old woman.

1. The fight will last six hours. It’ll be…………

2. There are 4000 pages in this book. It’s ……………..

3. The castle is 500 years old. It’s………………..

4. The jar hold 3 liters. It’s…………………

5. This bag with apples weighs two kilos. It’s a …………

Упражнение 10. Напишите множественное число следующих существительных. Проверьте себя по словарю.

A City, her, piano, calf, proof, chief, bath, belief, life, shelf, berry, valley

B Foot, boot, ox, fox, man, German, woman, mouth, mouse, child, sheep, ship, goose, deer, cheese

C crisis, phenomenon, datum, nucleus, basis, apparatus, corps, criterion, series, analysis, formula

D room-mate, fellow-worker, court-martial, man-of-war, boy-messenger, onlooker, passer-by, sister-in-law, merry-go-round

Упражнение 11. Определите число следующих существительных и назовите их единственное или множественное число.

Memoranda, antenna, means, scissors, school-inspector, pence, Frenchman, Roman, sanatoria, strata, automata, fish, photo, axes, physics, mechanics, cloth, commander-in-chief, works, forget-me-not, swine, halves, staff, sleeves, grief, niece, species, contents, sledges, business, knowledge, feet, corps, phenomena, clothes, bases, headquarters, Japanese