... noncount noun or a count noun with a slightly different
meaning. For example, the noncount noun chicken refers to chicken as a food. As such, we can-
not use it with number words or in the plural. ... possessive.” The problem with this defi nition arises with the possessive forms
of irregular nouns that become plural by changing their vowels rather than by adding a plural -s.
For example:
SINGULAR ... Most Americans eat pancakes and waffles with syrups.
9. Most people seem to have an inborn fears of snakes.
10. Many breads in the Middle East are made without yeasts.
Possessive nouns
Virtually...
... look exactly alike. For example, compare the
prepositional phrase with friends in the following sentences:
We had a nice dinner last night with friends.
A nice dinner with friends is always a ... third-person pronoun replacement test
applied to the two example sentences given above:
it
We had a nice dinner last night with friends.
It
A nice dinner with friends is always a great pleasure.
(i-viiiB,001-328B) ... dinner with friends is always a great pleasure.
In the fi rst sentence, with friends is adverbial, but in the second sentence, with friends is adjectival,
modifying the noun dinner. The only way...
... gets up at 7:00?”).
Foreword
Fun withGrammar describes exactly what teachers and students should do with grammar: they should
have fun with it. For me as a teacher, grammar class is always an opportunity ... approaches and material in the Azar grammar textbooks,
but are independent enough to be suitable for use with any grammar textbook. The activities in Fun
with Grammar can also be used in other ... the Azar Grammar Series” because the author’s
activities grew out of actual teaching experience using the Azar series. The exercises and activities in
Fun withGrammar fit beautifully with the...
... they are using the examples as models for their own usage.
Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar
support each statement with citations from ... perspective away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... find and organize real examples.
Our experience in the classroom with real examples is that learners have a lot less difficulty
with them than is often supposed. These examples, after all, are...
... expensive.
11 They used to have a parrot.
12 The fog is getting thicker.
Part 2 Agreements with negative remarks. Agree with the following remarks,
using no + pronoun + the auxiliary.
Elephants never ... look my age.
24 He mightn't like that colour.
Part 3 Disagreements with affirmative or negative remarks. Disagree with
the following remarks, using oh no/but + pronoun + auxiliary. Use ...
exactly alike.
15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time.
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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles:...
... said
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Irregular verb forms
299 Summary
A regular verb takes the endings s, ed and ing. For example, base form look,
s-form looks, past tense looked, ing-form looking and past/passive participle
looked. ... details of spelling and pronunciation, • 290.
But some nouns have an irregular plural. Here are some examples.
Vowel and consonant changes • 296
man men wife wives
Nouns which do not change in the ... Celts were a tall, fair-skinned people.
One day the peoples of this world will live in peace.
2 With some nouns we change f to v and add es/s.
loaf loaves thief thieves life lives
Also: calves,...