A practical english grammar - Vyssaja skola 1978
Exercises
Sound symbols
Exercise 1. Subjects and predicates. Identify the subjects and the predicates of the following sentences.
1. Those boys play.
2. Henry and Charles go to school.
3. English students work hard.
4. I see some boys on the playground.
5. These beans taste delicious.
6. The articles are “a,” “an,” and “the.”
7. The city is an interesting place to live.
8. The train is approaching the station.
Exercise 2. Noun plurals. Give the plurals of the nouns below. Some are regular, some are irregular.
boy sheep box
cup shop comb
match window table
leaf umbrella roof
bridge woman knife
foot pen garden
child cake goose
grade bird girl
cuff man mouse
Exercise 3. Noun determiners. Choose a, some, or any to fill in the blanks in these sentences.
1. I have ... match in my hand.
2. He has ... books.
3. They don’t have ... money.
4. That’s not ... tree.
5. He gave me ... water.
6. Do they have ... time?
7. I want to buy ... necktie.
8. They need ... clothes.
9. They don’t have ... pencils.
10. We see ... teacher.
Exercise 4. Lots of. Use lots of wherever possible in the blanks; do not change the nouns.
... friend
... news
... apples
... man
... time
... people
... trouble
... students
... lesson
... rice
... women
... shoes
... child
... water
... work
... city
... sugar
... sand
... pen
... keys