Focus on nominals: practice grammar book for intermediate learners of English. Бочарова М.В - 16 стр.

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32. _____death comes to us all one day.
33. There’s been ___death in the family.
34. She was sipping champagne from___ high glass.
35. How did you get that puncture in your tyre? – There was ___ broken glass
on the road.
36. Mrs. Brown is very old and lives in ___ home.
37. ___ home, sweet home.
38. She’s got ___ curly hair.
39. There’s ___ hair in my sandwich, a dark one; it must be yours.
40. The Mona Lisa is ___ work of art.
41. Learning a foreign language is ___ very hard work.
42. If you want to be fit you should take ___ exercise.
1.2. PLURAL, SINGULAR and COLLECTIVE NOUNS
TASK 23. Complete the first column of the table with nouns which are always
plural in English (look up Collins COBUILD Student’s Grammar Unit 5, §§ 2,
3). Indicate which are used with the, a possessive, or without a determiner. Give
their Russian equivalents.
English PLURAL
NOUNS
Russian singular Russian plural
Tools, instruments,
pieces of equipment:
 32. _____death comes to us all one day.
 33. There’s been ___death in the family.
 34. She was sipping champagne from___ high glass.
 35. How did you get that puncture in your tyre? – There was ___ broken glass
    on the road.
 36. Mrs. Brown is very old and lives in ___ home.
 37. ___ home, sweet home.
 38. She’s got ___ curly hair.
 39. There’s ___ hair in my sandwich, a dark one; it must be yours.
 40. The Mona Lisa is ___ work of art.
 41. Learning a foreign language is ___ very hard work.
 42. If you want to be fit you should take ___ exercise.


          1.2. PLURAL, SINGULAR and COLLECTIVE NOUNS


TASK 23. Complete the first column of the table with nouns which are always
plural in English (look up Collins COBUILD Student’s Grammar Unit 5, §§ 2,
3). Indicate which are used with the, a possessive, or without a determiner. Give
their Russian equivalents.
    English PLURAL               Russian singular            Russian plural
         NOUNS
Tools, instruments,
pieces of equipment:




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