The Noun

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I.8.1. Underline the correct item:

1. He has a lot of works/work to complete before leaving.

2. The stylist was trimming her customer’s hairs/hair.
3. We were all impressed with the content/contents of his speech.
4. The magazine lost the court case and was ordered to pay damage/damages
to the television celebrity.
5. The group doesn’t have sufficient funds/fund to finance the expedition.
6. The custom/customs officer stopped us and asked if he could inspect our
luggage.
7. The cook weighed out the necessary ingredients on the scale/scales.
8. They follow the custom/customs of exchanging chocolate eggs at Easter.
9. Hopkins proved popular but the man of the minute/minutes was De Niro.
10. She admired the colour/colours of her country during the military ceremony.

I.8.2. Underline the correct form of the verb. Sometimes both forms are possible:

0. The landscape is/are spectacular here.

1. Inaccurate weights occurred because the scales was/were unbalanced.
2. Detectives agree that the evidence is/are overwhelming.
3. The hostilities in the province was/were worrying.
4. Rubbish is/are accumulating outside the entrance to the stop.
5. The management was/were considering implementing the new strategy.
6. Athletics was/were well represented in the magazine’s sports section.
7. The audience was/were applauding loudly.
8. Good advice was/were hard to give in such a situation.
9. Work is/are underway to complete the new motorway.
10. The articles of furniture he bought were/was very expensive.
11. The government was/were debating the new bill for three days
12. A meeting is a waste of time if the minutes is/are lost.
13. The woods is/are home to hundreds of plant species.
14. Is/Are the designer spectacles really worth getting? I could just buy these,
instead.
15. A crowd of hangers-on was/were pursuing the Princess.
16. The stairs is/are due to be replaced by a lift.
17. The premises was/were declared unsafe after the earthquake.
18. Argument is/are widespread on the global warming issue.
19. Your theory is sound but your calculations is/are wrong.
20. The information were/was passed on to another department.
I.8.4. Fill in the following words so as to form meaningful phrases: advice,
chocolate, jam, lemonade, meat, milk, coffee, oil, rice, tennis:

1. a piece of …………….
2. a packet of……………
3. a bar of ……………….
4. a glass of ……………..
5. a cup of ………………
6. a bottle of ……………
7. a slice of ……………..
8. a barrel of ……………
9. a game of ……………
10. a jar of ……………….

The Article

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II.6.2. Tick the answer that best fits the meaning of each sentence.

1. Accidents / The accident will happen, I’m afraid.

2. A tortoise is a / the sort of reptile.
3. My dog has hurt the / his leg.
4. Look me in the / my eye and tell me what you’re saying is true.
5. A / The liver is used to help purify the blood.
6. Can’t you think of anything else? You’ve got food on the / your brain.
7. Have you ever considered taking up a / the musical instrument?
8. What on earth is a / the CD_ROM?
9. I used to play a / the trumpet when I was younger.
10. Frank White invented a / the jet engine.

II.6.4. Insert the necessary articles (definite, indefinite or zero):

As ……….(1) political entity, Britain (as ……….(2) United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Northern Ireland is loosely called) is less than 300 years old, being ……….
(3) state which emerged from ……….(4) union of ……….(5) ancient kingdoms of
Scotland and England in 1707.
It is widely assumed that ……….(6) British are ……….(7) relatively
homogenous society, with ……….(8) strong sense of ……….(9) identity, but it is
……….(10) assumption that requires ……….(11) considerable qualification. Even after
300 years, ……….(12) terms “British” and “Britain”, which are used for ……….(13)
official purposes, can seem very artificial.
 For centuries, it has been ……….(14) idea of England (or Scotland), rather than
of Britain, which has been charged with patriotic emotion. The idea of England is
invoked at ……….(15) times of national crisis, for example at ……….(16) Battle of
Trafalgar in 1805, when ……….(17). Admiral Nelson’s famous order to ……….(18)
British Fleet read: “England expects that every man will do his duty”.(…)
While Britain is instinctively thought of by many as “England”, so also ……….
(19) idea of England evokes ……….(20) images of ……….(21) Queen, ……….(22)
Parliament, ……….(23) Westminster Abbey, ……….(24) Tower of London and
……….(25) soft landscape of ……….(26) Southern counties. This is not so surprising,
since almost ……….(27) quarter of ……….(28) British people live within 25 miles of
……….(29) Trafalgar Square. But it also reveals that England as well as Britain is
dominated by ……….(30) South, and particularly ……….(31) South-East.

The Adjective

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III.7.2. Find adjectives coming from the following verbs:

1. instruct 11. permit
2. attract 12. convince
3. relate 13. collapse
4. persuade 14. argue
5. construct 15. pity
6. exclude 16. reserve
7. avoid 17. concern
8. remove 18. employ
9. deny 19. use
10. solve 20. succeed
III.7.4. Provide the right form of the adjectives in bold letters to fill in the gaps:

1. Yesterday John told me a funny joke. This joke was the…………………..

joke I've ever heard.
2. My father is heavy. My uncle is much……………………. than my father.
3. The test in Geography was easy, but the test in Biology
was……………………..
4. Florida is sunny. Do you know the…………………… place in the USA?
5. Stan is a successful sportsman, but his sister is…………………… than Stan.
6. My mother has a soft voice, but my teacher's voice is………………. than my
mother's.
7. Amy has a beautiful baby, but my daughter has the………………….. baby
on earth.
8. I live in a large family, but my grandfather lived in a …………………..
family.
9. We have only little time for this exercise, but in the examination we'll have
even………….. time.
10. Lucy is clever, but Carol is………………….. than Lucy.