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    English Grammar Practice: The Noun
    English Grammar Practice: The Noun
    English Grammar Practice: The Noun
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    English Grammar Practice: The Noun

    By Roxana Nastase

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    English Grammar might seem difficult. It gets easier with examples and comparisons. You can master English grammar through conversational exercises. They will help you with everyday life in an English environment. The method was tested for several years on students between eleven and sixty-five years old and the results were astonishing.
    This Grammar English Book offers grammar, fully explained and practiced through a variety of exercises; helps with developing and practicing vocabulary; is ideal for self-study or classroom use. There are regular consolidation units which help with the First Certificate and TOEFL examinations.
    This is an ideal resource, helping with adapting communications by presenting English grammar structures. If you want to become fluent in English, this will help you reach your goal of becoming fluent. The structure and uses of nouns are explained with detailed examples for each structure and are practiced extensively in exercises, which also help to develop conversational skills. This book has been developed and tested along several years. I have used the content of this English Grammar Book with very good results.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScarlet Leaf
    Release dateSep 3, 2016
    ISBN9781988397214
    English Grammar Practice: The Noun
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    Roxana Nastase

    Roxana Nastase has been teaching English for over seventeen years, ranging in level from kindergarten to college. She specializes in English Grammar and has had several books issued throughout the years. Her books were used with much success in schools in Eastern Europe for teaching English as a second language.

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      English Grammar Practice - Roxana Nastase

      ROXANA NASTASE

      ENGLISH GRAMMAR

      THE NOUN

      EXPLANATIONS & EXERCISES

      WITH ANSWERS

      SCARLET LEAF

      2017

      SCARLET LEAF PUBLISHING HOUSE

      TORONTO

      ONTARIO

      CANADA

      COPYRIGHT BY ROXANA NASTASE

      ISBN: 978-1-988397-18-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book can be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      For information address Scarlet Leaf Publishing House

      Scarletleafpublishinghouse@gmail.com

      Cover Design: Roxana Nastase

      UNIT 1: SINGULAR AND PLURAL OF THE NOUNS

      RULES TO FORM THE PLURAL OF NOUNS

      1. Most of the nouns add –s to singular to form the plural.

      Ex: chair  chairs

      2. Nouns ending in –ch, -sh, -s or –x at singular, add –es for plural.

      Ex:

      Note: the nouns POTATO and TOMATO add –es for plural:

      Ex:

      3. Nouns ending in a consonant +-y at singular turn –y into –i and add –es for plural.

      Ex:

      4. Nouns ending in –f or –fe at singular turn the respective termination into –ves.

      Ex:

      Exception: roof  roofs

      5. Some nouns have irregular plural:

      Ex:

      NOTES:

      1. Foreign nouns and abbreviations in –o add only –s at the form of the singular to form the plural.

      Ex:

      2. Names take –s for plural without modifications

      Ex: Mary  Marys (The Marys of the world are too many to be counted)

      3. Some nouns have the same form for the singular and the plural:

      a) Some names of animals and fish

      b) Measurement units and numerals

      c) Nouns like: brace (= pair), yoke (= pair of oxen), stone (6.350 kg), couple, head, hundredweight (= 50 or 45 kg) are invariable after numerals and are always followed by of

      Exceptions possible for:

      pairs of; stone(s); hundredweight(s)

      d) The nouns: kind, sort, manner

      e) Names of inhabitants of a country or towns that end in –e or –s:

      Ex: Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Viennese, Swiss

      f) The nouns: series and species

      4. We always use a verb in plural for:

      a) nouns like:

      b) adjectives and participle used as nouns like:

      5. If we have an expression like:

      designating a quantity or a measurement unit, the verb will be used in singular.

      Ex: Where’s that two pounds I left on the table?

      Ex: Four liters of milk is not enough.

      6. The nouns people and police are always used with a verb in plural.

      Ex: People are interesting.

      Exception: when people represents a nation

      Ex: The people of our country has made the choice.

      Ex: The police are able to find the thief.

      7. The following nouns are singular even though they end in –s:

      Ex: Here’s the news.

      Ex: Physics is difficult.

      UNIT 2: SINGULAR AND PLURAL OF THE NOUNS - PRACTICE

      1. Rephrase the sentences using the nouns in plural instead of singular and make all necessary changes:

      a) The table had only three legs.

      _____________________________________________

      b) The boy played the piano in the sitting-room.

      _____________________________________________

      c) The cat drank milk and washed itself afterwards.

      ______________________________________________

      d) The chair was broken.

      ______________________________________________

      e) He opened the window because it was too hot.

      ______________________________________________

      f) The door was left open.

      ______________________________________________

      g) The dog was barking while the chariot was passing by.

      ______________________________________________

      h) The ashtray was full of ashes.

      ______________________________________________

      i) The jar was in the pantry.

      ______________________________________________

      j) The pen was lying on the floor.

      ______________________________________________

      2. Fill in the blanks with one noun from the list; use the noun in singular or in plural, according to the meaning of the sentence:

      bush, kiss, fly, potato, tooth, deer,

      salmon, cavalry, news, Physics

      a) She was listening to the _______________ attentively and forgot everything about her ___________________ homework.

      b) No one

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