Exercise 4. Give the plural of the following words.

	Ending	Regular plural	Latin / Greek plural
a	-us	-uses	-i
b	-a	-as	-ae
с	-um	-urns	-a
d	-ex	-exes	-ices
e	-ix	-ixes	-ices
f	-is	-ises	-es
g	-on	-ons	-a

a) alumnus, apparatus, cactus, calculus, corpus, fungus, genius, nucleus, radius, stimulus, syllabus;

b) alumna, dogma, enigma, formula, stigma, vertebra;

с) bacterium, curriculum, datum, forum, medium, memorandum, millennium, stadium, stratum;

d) appendix, index, matrix;

e) analysis, axis, basis, crisis, diagnosis, hypothesis, oasis, parenthesis, thesis;

f) criterion, phenomenon.

Exercise 5. Put the noun in plural.

1. All prospective students are interviewed by (alumnus) before a final decision is made. 2. A thorough understanding of mathematics is sufficient to explain a wide variety of natural (phenomenon). 3. Project provided some (stimulus) for interesting investigative work on the site. 4. (Datum) regarding employees' salaries are stored on the computer at the main office. 5. They look a bit like (cactus). 6. The (dogma) of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. 7. What is the splitting of (nucleus) of atoms? 8. The story received a huge amount of (medium) attention. 9. Various (hypothesis) are possible regarding the nature and structure of the world. 10. After several (crisis) they got divorced. 11. Changing the college admissions (criterion) will have a serious effect. 12. (Hypothesis) are formal (idea) that are based on very few facts. 13. I wasn't sure then, if I would be able to read all these diploma (thesis) here. 14. As I studied more about their past, I became more puzzled, and (enigma) were multiplying. 15. The database contains two (index) which control access to it.

Examine 6. State which nouns have the plural (and in what sense this plural is used); which nouns have no plural; which nouns – if given in the plural – have no singular, or whose singular may have a different meaning. Translate them into Ukrainian. Make a sentence or a word combination of your own with each word to illustrate the difference

1. air	21. charity	41.premises
2. beef	22. work	42. clergy
3. advice	33. scales	43.police
4. instruments	24. mathematics	44. manner
5. salt	25. experience	45. evidence
6. outskirts	26. cattle	46. cloth
7. dozen	27. knowledge	47. china
8. committee	28. customs	48. smoke
9. remains	29. looks	49. means
10. offspring	30. iron	50. peoples
11. nature	31. news	51. goods
12. chicken	32. furniture	52. information
13. billiards	33. clothes	52. peoples
14. trousers	34. behaviour	54. family
15. hair	35. species	55. sweets
16. weather	36. music	56. worth
17. scissors	37. sleep	57. fireworks
18. fish	38. mud	58. bread
19. council	39. arms	59. minutes
20. draughts	40. company	60. fruit

<== попередня сторінка	\|	наступна сторінка ==>
Exercise 3. Put the noun in plural. Indicate where two variants are possible.	\|	Exercise 7. Which is the odd one out?

Не знайшли потрібну інформацію? Скористайтесь пошуком google:

Генерація сторінки за: 0.004 сек.