2. Разделите следующие имена существительные на три группы существительные: простые, производные и сложные.

Chair, arm-chair, table, swimming-pool, disarmament, reconstruction, constructor, librarian, garden, vegetable-garden, state, town, train, looking-glass, village, child, children, childhood, father, reading-room, window, development, comfort, discomfort, picture, shoe, happiness, resistance, resistor, lawyer, woman, journalist, musician, winter, actor, sitting-room, house, family, name, flat, house-wife, shoemaker, saleswoman, girl, boy, boy-friend, Englishmen, newspaper, tradition, living-room, freedom, commander-in-chief, brother, mother-in-law, pencil, schoolboy, sheep, information, postman, day-star, dancing-hall, flowerbed, football, fountain-pen, seaman.

3. Напишите следующие существительные во множественном числе и прочитайте их.

boy, girl, ship, watch, bus, life, eye, place, country, thief, week, shelf, fox, language, party, leaf, dress, day, glass, wall, night, bush, kite, ray, key, roof, trains, child, man, tooth, foot, mouse, woman, goose, sheep, means.

4. Разделите следующие имена существительные на две колонки: существительные, употребляемые только в единственном числе, и существительные, употребляемые во множественном числе.

Love, women, money, scissors, lion, lioness, progress, physics, mice, hair, clothes, wages, trousers, vacation, mathematics, goods, spectacles, advice, arms, goose, information, news, potatoes, knowledge, phonetics, potato, people, peoples, magazine, glass, office, actress, letter, business, men, child, teeth.

5. Выберите глагол и правильно согласуйте его с подлежащим.

1. My parents (have, has) a nice flat. 2. I want to read. Where (is, are,) my spectacles? 3. Your knowledge of English (are, is) rather good. 4. My sister's hair (is, are) fair. 5. Bad news (have, has) wings. 6. Mathematics (is, are) the basis of many other sciences. 7. Men (is, are) at the stadium. 8. Money (are, is) not everything. 9. The clothes (is, are) in the wardrobe. 10. The father has got wages. The wages (is, are) on the shelf.

6. Выберите форму существительного в притяжательном падеже.

1.The tooth of my little brother 2. The toys of my sister

A. My brother's little tooth; A. My sister's toys

B. My little brother's tooth B. My sisters' toys

С My tooth's little brother С The toys' my sister.

3. The wages of my father 4. The text-book of my friend

A. Father's my wages; A. My friends' text-book

B. Wages' my father B. My friend's the text-book

C. My father's wages С My friend's text-book

5. The people of this country. 6. The goods of that office.

A. This country's people; A. That office's goods;

B. These people's country; B. That offices' goods

С Country's these people. С. The goods' that office

7. The instruments of his father. 8. The children of my aunt.

A. His father's instruments; A. My aunts' children;

B. His instrument's father; B. Children's my aunt;

С The father's instruments. C. My aunt's children.

9. The geese of my Granny. 10. The trousers of those boys.

A. Geese's my Granny; A. Those boy's trousers;

B. My Granny's geese; B. Those boys' trousers;

С My geese's Granny. С The trousers' those boys.