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Seminar 3

Exercises

1. Write down semantic types of the genitive case and then group out the following
phrases:

John’s idea, the cat’s tail, the people’s choice, woman’s work, a few minutes’ silence, the
doctor’s arrival, a moment’s delay, Canada’s population, Byron’s poems, children’s verses,
John’s arrest, Mary’s car, a mile’s distance, the committee’s decision, China’s exports, a
moment’s thought.

1. Possession John`s idea, the cat`s tail, Mary`s car, John’s arrest, Byron’s
poems,
2. Origin
Canada’s population, China’s exports

3. Partitive
a few minutes’ silence, a mile’s distance,

4. Description
woman’s work, children’s verses,

5. Agency
the committee’s decision

6. Time/Duration
a moment’s delay, a moment’s thought.

7.

2. Put down the types of the noun used in the genitive case and then group out the
following phrases:
Paul’s leg, the swallow’s nest, today’s newspaper, the government’s plans, the city’s business
leaders, Moscow water supply, the hotel’s lobby, three miles’ distance, a girl’s voice, a night’s
rest, the government’s plans, Moscow’s talks, a the assistant manager’s desk the mind's
development.

1.Possessive Genitive Paul’s leg, today’s newspaper, the


hotel’s lobby, a girl’s voice, the assistant
manager’s desk, the mind's
development.

2.Descriptive Genitive the city’s business leaders, the


government’s plans, the contry`s
economy, Moscow’s talks

3.Genitive of Measure or Extent three miles’ distance, a night’s rest

4.Objective Genitive the swallow’s nest

5.
6.
7.
8.

3. Choose the right option. Sometimes both are possible.


2. a collegue of hers
3. Adam`s decision
4. a horror film and a documentary about apartheid
5. the brother of someone I worked with in Malaysia
6. the Earth`s surface
7. a moment`s of hesitation
8. a children`s playground
9. a cousin of John Lennon`s
1. Define the ways of formation of the plural of the following nouns:
Bee – bees, log – logs, leaf – leaves, sheep – sheep, photo – photos, formula – formulae,
foot- feet, deer – deer, curriculum - curricula, axis – axes, child – children.
2. Form the plural of the following nouns:
Crisis-crises, analysis-analyses, basis-bases, diagnosis-diagnoses, antenna-
antennae/antennas, index-ndexis, grown-up-grown-ups, forget-me-not-forget-me-nots,
passerby-passersby, deer-deer, mouse-mice, goose-geese, louse-lice, scarf-scarves, merry-go-
round-merry-go-rounds, handful-handfuls, Dutchman-Dutchmen, German-Germans, foot-feet,
room-mate-room-mates, berry-berries, sheep-sheep, belief-beliefs, life-lives, species-species,
sister-in-law-sisters-in-law, phenomenon-phenomea, Swiss-Swiss, looker-on-lookers-on,
Roman-Rmans, cuckoo-cuckoos, penny-pennies.

1. Use the right present forms of the verbs in brackets

1. are
2. is
3. is
4. live
5. depend
6. has
7. is
8. has
9. has
10.is
11.is
12.means
13.are
14.is
1. Making minimum of changes rewrite the sentences below using words in
brackets. Mind that some of the words but not all of them are uncountable.

1. Have you got much luggage?


2. The latest news from China is disturbing.
3. Is there any room left on the bus?
4. There are lots of disadvantage.
5. I asked the teacher for some advice.
6. How many years of experience have you had as a journalist?
1. Comment on the way of expressing gender in the following cases:
1. Father - Mother: Gender is expressed through entirely different words (lexical
pairs).
2. Waiter - Waitress: Gender is expressed by adding the suffix "-ess" to the male
form to create a feminine form.
3. Chairman - Chairwoman: Gender is expressed by changing the ending "man" to
"woman" to indicate female gender.
4. Boyfriend - Girlfriend: Gender is expressed by using different words, "boy" and
"girl," in compound forms.
5. He-wolf - She-wolf: Gender is expressed by adding "he-" and "she-" as prefixes
to specify male and female.
6. Son - Daughter: Gender is expressed through entirely different words (lexical
pairs).
7. Tiger - Tigress: Gender is expressed by adding the suffix "-ess" to the male form
to create a feminine form.
8. Bull - Cow: Gender is expressed through entirely different words (lexical pairs).
9. Uncle - Aunt: Gender is expressed through entirely different words (lexical pairs).

9.

1. is
2. The
3. As
4. the
5. each
6. was
7. from
8. date
9. were
10. while
11.across
12.By
13.most
14.the
15.is

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