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a book books
a table tables
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| . -f/-fe Eg. wolf, life, leaf | -ves. Eg. wolves, lives, leaves. |
| . - Eg. tomato, potato | -es. Eg. Tomatoes, potatoes. !! photos, radios, zoos . |
| . -y c Eg. army, family | -es, -y -i-. Eg. armies, families. |
| !!! E -y- , ! Eg. boy- boys, toy- toys | |
| . -s, -ss, -ch, -sh-, -x( ) eg. Dress, dish, box | -es Eg. dresses, dishes, boxes. |
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| man | men | |
| woman | women | |
| mouse | mice | |
| tooth | teeth | |
| goose | geese | |
| foot | feet | |
| child | children | |
| ox | oxen | |
| fish | fish | |
| sheep | sheep | |
| deer | deer | |
| swine | swine |
Exercise 1. Write underlined nouns in the form of singular and make corresponding changes if necessary.
1. Students know the town well and can show you the way to the theatre. 2. My friends live in Sevastopol, they study at the University. 3. Do these boys go to the Institute in the morning or in the afternoon? 4. Professors want to buy some books which they need for their work. 5. These girls sing well but they cannot play the piano. 6. Housewives work very much at home. 7. Two of my friends work at this plant, they are engineers. 8. These little girls like when their brothers play with them. 9. Children spend a lot of time out-of-doors. 10. My cousins have families of their own. 11. My sisters have breakfast at 8 oclock and then they go to school. They return home only at 2 oclock in the afternoon. 12. Navigators go to the library twice a month. 13. Their teachers tell them that they make many mistakes because they are not attentive at the classes. 14. Seamen go to work by bus and return home on foot.15. Two of my sisters are married, their husbands are workers.
Exercise 2. Write the plural of each noun
depth, datum, ship, passenger, lady, bee, city, fly, inch, knife, wolf, match, bus, log, basis, house, glass, tray, seaman, ax, cliff, box, handkerchief, tooth, class, roof, potato, child, wish, woman, foot, sheep, path, voyage, shelf, family-name, key, barge, ox.
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Exercise 3. Translate into Russian paying attention to the meaning of the nouns.
1. The Company claim damages. 2. The peoples of the world struggle against the policy of star wars. 3. All my pains were for nothing. 4. Where are the crew quarters? 5. When you arrive in a foreign country you must go through the customs. 6. This custom is very popular with us. 7. You are responsible for the damage caused to my ship.
Exercise 4. Translate into English
1. ? 2. 20 . 3. ? 4. . 5. . 6. . 7. . 8. . 9. ? 10. ? 11. . 12. ? . 13. . . 14. . 15. - . 16. . 17. ? 18. ?
