Exercise 1. Make Singular Nouns Plural and Plural Nouns Singular

1) students 2) a dictionary 3) colleges 4)a person 5) a photo

6) a hobby 7) a teenager 8) a city 9) universities 10)a boy

11) an orange 12) a foot 13) men 14) games 15)an exercise

16) children 17) a potato 18) shelves 19) a match

Exercise 2.Make up your own sentences with the following words.

Example: fresh/egg – It's a fresh egg.

hot/tea – It's_ hot tea.

Pam and Liz/kind/girl – Pam and Liz are kind girls.

1) cold/water 2) John and I/tall/man 3) rather good/advice 4) Tom and Bill/clever/child

5) nice/cup 6) quite bad/news 7) Frank and Andrew/smart/person 8) white/bread

Much/many/a lot

Much	Many	A lot
in negative sentences and in questions with Uncountable Nouns much coffee much money	in negative sentences and in questions with Countable Nouns many people many books	in positive sentences with Countable and Uncountable Nouns a lot of furniture a lot of languages

Some/any/no

Some	Any	No
with Uncountable Nouns or Countable Plural Nouns to express quantity in positive sentences “+” There is some milk in the fridge. There are some people in the street.	with Uncountable Nouns or Countable Plural Nouns to express quantity in negative sentences “-“ and in questions “?” There isn't any milk in the fridge. Is there any milk in the fridge? There aren't any people in the street. Are there any people in the street?	= not any   to express quantity in negative sentences “-“ There is no milk in the fridge. There are no people in the street.

Exercise 3. Use many, much with the following words.

1) tea 2) country 3) river 4) snow

5) child 6) information 7) day 8) food

9) money 10) advice 11) shop 12) letter

13) person 14) town

There is/are

Positive sentence

There	is	a pen and two books	on his desk.
are	two books and a pen

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with the right form of the verb to be.

Example: There is a book and two pens on the table. There are two pens and a book on the table.

1. There ___ two men at the door.

2. There ___ a good clothes shop not far from here.

3. There ___ a lot of people at the concert today.

4. There ___ a policewoman over there.

5. There ___ a dog and a cat in the garden.

6. There ___ no money in my bank account.

7. There ___ four people in my family.

8. There ___ no news from my friends.

Negative sentence

There	is not (isn't)	an	armchairs	in his livingroom.
are not (aren’t)	any
(are)	(no)

Exercise 5. Rewrite the following sentences with no.

1. There aren't any pictures on the walls.

2. I'm afraid there isn't any coffee left.

3. There isn't any news from her.

4. There aren't any chairs in the kitchen.

Exercise 6. Complete the sentences with some, any or no.

1. "Where's Pete?" – "He's at the party with ___of his friends."

2. There's ___information about that accident in today's newspaper.

3. There aren't cheese sandwiches on the plate but here're ___ham sandwiches.

4. There are ___ beautiful flowers in the park.

5. There are ___ posters on the wall, but there are___ pictures.

6. There aren't ___ shops in this part of the town.

7. There's ___ tea in the teapot. It's empty.

8. There are ___ mistakes in Ralph's test. It's excel­lent.

Exercise 7. Complete the sentences with much, many, a lot of.

1. This part of the road is very difficult for drivers. There is ___sand on the road.

2. It is a modern town. There aren't ___old buildings.

3. The cupboard is quite large. There is ___space for plates and glasses.

4. There aren't ___women's colleges at Oxford. Only five.

5. There isn't ___food in the fridge.

6. There is ___interesting information in this book.

7. There aren't ___tourists here this year.