EXERCISE 6. Choose the correct form.

1. Some children hate school/ the school.

2. After living school/the school, Nora worked as a cleaner in hospital/at the hospital.

3. When Ann was ill, we all went to hospital/to the hospital to visit her.

4. After work/the work Kate usually goes home/ to home.

5. Tom left university/the university without doing his examinations.

6. I like to read in bed/in the bed before going to sleep.

THE NOUN: Level B

Plurals of compound nouns In general we make the plural of a compound noun by adding -s to the "base word" (the most "significant" word):

singular	plural
a tennis shoe	three tennis shoes
one assistant headmaster	five assistant headmasters
the sergeant major	some sergeants major
a mother-in-law	two mothers-in-law
an assistant secretary of state	three assistant secretaries of state
my toothbrush	our toothbrushes
a woman-doctor	four women-doctors
a doctor of philosophy	two doctors of philosophy
a passerby, a passer-by	two passersby, two passers-by

Some compound nouns have no obvious "base word" and you may need to consult a dictionary to find the plural:

• higher-ups
• also-rans
• go-betweens
• has-beens
• good-for-nothings
• grown-ups
• forget-me-nots

EXERCISE 1. Give the plural of the following nouns.

А. А pin, а hat, а fox, а baby, а day, potato, а volcano, а piano, а photo, а knife, а roof, а half, а leaf, а cliff, а chief, а life, а family, а queue, а bath, а berry, а valley, а century, а salmon, а taxi, а person, а penny, а watch, а virtuoso, а lily, а woodworm.

В. А man, а woman, а German, а foot, а tooth, а sheep, а ship, а fish, an ох, а fox, а child, а fireman, а mouse, а swine, а house, а louse, а goose, а mongoose, а deer, а means, а series, а species, аn aircraft, an offspring, а Swiss, а Japanese, а Maltese, а Portuguese, а Chinese, а Milanese.

С. А passer-by, а mother-in-law, а room-mate, а forget­-me-not, а merry-go-round, а fellow-worker, a man-of-war, а school-inspector, а commander-in-chief, а boy-messenger, а personnel-manager, а woman-driver, а man-servant, а hanger-on, а face-lift, а spoonful, а cupful, а boyfriend, а grown-up, an office-block, а workmate.

EXERCISE 2. Consult the table and give the pluгal of the following foreign words.

	Ending	Regular plural	LatinjGreek plural
а	-us	-uses	-i
b	-а	-as	-ае
с	-um	-ums	-а
d	-ех	-exes	-ices
е	-ix	-ixes	-ices
f	-is	- ises	-es
g	-оn	-ons	-а

a) cactus, fungus, radius, stimulus, genius;

b) alga, formula (in science), vertebra, antenna;

с) bacterium, curriculum, datum, medium, memorandum, stratum, millennium;

d) index (in mathematics, in books);

е) appendix (in books, in medicine);

f) analysis, axis, basis, crisis, diagnosis, hypothesis, oasis, parenthesis, thesis;

g) criterion, phеnоmеnоn.

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