11. Translate into Russian.

A *forget-me-nots, mice, handfuls, clothes, loaves, athletics, wages, chiefs, geese, glasses, mailmen, politics, politicians, news, fruit, the English, English, yeast

*formulae, pyjamas, cream, police, bacteria, cacti, cliffs, cattle, curricula, customs, contents, commanders-in-chief, courage, criteria, cloths, diagnoses, dwarves, slices,

*Dutch, deer, data, expenses, an item of furniture, geniuses, genii, gulfs, grains, goods, hooves, joy, kerchiefs, dwarfs, knowledge, luggage, louse

*lumps, lice, merry-go-rounds, means, oxen, peoples, poultry, phenomena, proofs, pros, species, scarves, sights, series, Swiss, swine, scales, scissors, suburbs,

B 1. baths 2. boxes 3. the Kennedys 4. M.P.s 5. the Swiss 6. go-betweens 7. expenses 8. measles 9. accessories 10. bushes 11. tactics 12. phenomena 13. men-servants 14. arms 15. classics 16. men-of-war 17. beauties 18. news 19. draughts 20. thieves

12. Form the plural where possible.

1. man 2. child 3. woman 4. tooth 5. foot 6. deer 7. sister-in-law 8. woman-pilot 9. loaf 10. goose 11. mouse 12. match 13. shelf 14. handkerchief 15. mouth 16. ski 17. forget-me-not 18. bath 19. sky 20. antenna 21. cactus 22. editor-in-chief 23. datum 24. crisis 25. criterion

26. Vietnamese 27. species 28. grown-up 29. passer-by 30. breakdown 31. man-servant 32. furniture 33. beauty 34. sweet 35. fruit 36. success 37. salary 38. person 39. goods 40. fish 41. ox 42. cage 43. soap 44. merry-go-round 45. mother-in-law 46. penny 47. people 48. crisis 49. phenomenon 50. roof

*13. Give the singular.

data, species, jeans, trousers, lice, criteria, stairs, the English, wages, pence, curricula, means, news, advice, aircraft, cacti, phenomena, crises, geese, clothes, furniture

14. Correct the mistakes, if any.

1. cloths 2. vallies 3. selfs 4. youthes 5. sheeps 6. Eskimoes 7. mouths 8. species 9. oxes 10. antennas 11. photoes 12. proofs 13. editors-in-chiefs 14. airs 15. fishes 16. deer 17. radios 18. dears 19. womens 20. cargoes

21. tooths 22. handsful 23. babys 24. wolfs 25. crisises 26. Chinese 27. stand-bies 28. toothbrushs 29. sands 30. scarfs 31. luggages 32. wifes 33. swines 34. Kennedys 35. knowledges 36. loavs 37. soloes 38. homeworks 39. mouses 40.Gatsbies

41. Swisses 42. safes 43. datas 44. woman-doctors 45. passers-bys 46. trousers 47. criterions 48. grouses 49. furnitures 50. chieves 51. Englishes 52. cattles 53. handkerchieves 54. mother-in-laws 55. lices 56. postmans 57. breakdowns 58. potatos 59. means 60. forget-me-nots

*15. Complete with the correct form of the noun in brackets.

1. all the ___ (basis) 2. a bunch of ___ (lily-of-the-valley) 3. different ___ (datum) 4. two different __ (date) 5. a few ___ ( deer) 6. some valuable ___(advice) 7. all the necessary ___ (series) 8. several Indian ___ (chief) 9. four ___ (hoof) 10. various ___ (cactus) 11. two small slowly moving ___ (antenna) 12. a lot of ___ (bacterium) 13. everybody’s ___ (breakdown) 14. about ten ___ (woman-driver) 15. five ___ (aerial) on the roof 16. children and ___ (grown-up) 17. few really good ___ (zoo) 18. three expensive ___ (piano) 19. a crowd of angry ___ (dwarf) 20. most white ___ (mouse) 21. both __ (foot) 22. many of scientific ___ (formula) 23. pots and pots of blooming ___ (cactus) 24. several ___ (furniture) 25. one and a half ___ (loaf) of brown bread

*16. Complete using a noun in the plural.

1. In towns wild animals are kept in ____ 2. Brave men in the war become ____ 3. We lock doors, but sometimes lose the ____ 4. Ladies have babies, cows have ___ 5. Post is delivered by ____ 6. Criminals are arrested by the ____ 7. Children grow up and become ___ 8. Computers use some ____ 9. On snails’ heads you can see _____. 10. Things that are sold are called ____

11. To buy something you need ________. 12. To answer well you need good ____ 13. Beds, sofas, chairs, tables are all ____ 14. Small coins in England are called ___ 15. Mathematicians deal with ____. 16. To bake bread you need ____. 17. Men, when they are very young, are called ___ 18. Married women have ___ 19. Married men have ___ 20. In recipes sugar is often measured by ____

21. Big money is often kept in ___ 22. You put boots on your ____ 23. Poultry farmers breed hens, ducks and ___ 24. Aerials used to be placed on the ___ 25. In America aerials are called ____ 26. Cats should (but don’t) catch ___ 27. In arguments you need not only opinions, but also ___ 28. Buses are slower than ___29. Men’s life is shorter than ___ 30. Whales are not insects, they are ___