Grammar practice
1.Напишите множественное число следующих существительных:
church,difficulty, mouse, month, child, roof, boy, woman, deer, leaf, goose, potato, foot, dress, radio, ox, fish, wolf, country,tooth, hero, belief, sheep, half,tomato, means, photo, Englishman, swine, activity, thief, kilo, party, echo
2. Вставьте is или are.
1. Look! Your trousers ___________ under the sofa.
2. Where ___________ my scissors?
3. There ___________ a lot of snow on the ground.
4. Your shopping ___________ heavy. Shall I help you?
5. Where ___________ my gloves?
6. This information ___________ incorrect.
7. His hair ___________ brown and curly.
8. Their furniture ___________ very cheap.
9. Our mice ___________ really cute.
10. The news ___________ very exciting.
11. Mumps ___________ a common illness among children.
12. My glasses ___________ on the table.
13. Chinese ___________ difficult to learn.
14. Where ___________ the kitchen scales?
15. Billiards ___________ a popular game.
3. Give plural of these nouns
4. Прочитайте текст и преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.
One of the most striking (1) ___________ CHANGE in family structure over the last twenty years has been the increase of single parent (2) ___________FAMILY. Due to high divorce (3) ___________ RATE and adults choosing not to marry, this is currently the fastest growing family form in most developed (4) ___________COUNTRY. More than half of all youngsters will spend some of their (5) ___________LIFE in a single-parent family. Currently, 88 percent of these households are headed by (6) ___________WOMAN. Research shows that (7) ___________CHILD living with a single parent tend to be more active and have more (8) ___________DUTY such as shopping, cleaning, cooking or washing the (9) ___________DISH. One possible reason is that they are usually more involved in decision-making (10) ___________ACTIVITY.
