Is the form of a noun correct?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 645.

Nouns not normally countable in English

Another each every

A little much a large / small amount of a bit of

Too much money is needed to satisfy non-essential wants.

c. Some quantifiers are used only with plural count nouns.

You probably want many things - clothes, entertainment, money for travelling.

d. Some quantifiers are used only with singular count nouns.

Later young people learn another lesson.

Eachcountry will answer three major economic questions

in a different way.

The plural form for most nouns has an -s or ( after -o;-s;-x;-ch;-sh) -es ending.

a. Some nouns form their plurals with a vowel change or an ending change (man/men). Penny can have a regular plural pennies when we are referring to separate coins (ten pennies) or a collective plural, pence, when we are referring to a total amount (ten pence).

Note the following nouns, which have irregular plural:

b. Some nouns form their plurals by changing a consonant before adding -s or -es, (wolf – wolves; leaf – leaves; wife – wives) or by changing -y into -ies (country – countries); except -ay,-ey, -oy, -uy (boy - boys)

c. Some nouns form their plurals by adding an ending.

(child – children, ox - oxen)

d. Some have the same plural and singular forms.

§ Exports, imports (количество или стоимость вывезенных или ввезен-ных товаров) take a plural verb but export, import (процесс ввоза или вывоза) are singular.

§ Note that dozen and score have the same plural and singular form if they go after the numeral: two dozen (of) eggs, three score (of) years (but scores / dozens of people)

e. When a noun is used as an adjective, it takes a singular form.

The goods can be stored for two weeks. (noun)

This is a two - week store of goods.

We also use – 's with (or –s' with plural words) periods of time.

I've got a week's / three weeks' sick leave.

f. Collective nouns (crowd, firm, team, group, etc.) refer to an entire group. When these are groups of people we often think of them as a number of people (=”they”), not as one thing (=”it”). So we often use a plural verb:

The staff at the firm (=they) are not happy with outside consultants.

When a collective noun indicates a period of time, a sum of money, or a measurement, it takes a singular verb.

Two weeks is enough time to provide goods.

Ten dollars is not enough to meet the needs of a family.

g. Some nouns end in -s but are actually singular and take singular verbs: economics, statistics, politics (academic subjects); news.

Economics if studied thoroughly influences how you earn a living.

But when the reference is specific, the verb must be plural.

Their statistics are extremely helpful (статистические данные).

Nouns like crossroads, headquarters, kennels, series, species, works (=factory) are singular when they refer to one:

John has just read a series of articles about the discovery of oil.

They are plural when they refer to more than one:

There are a lot of TV series about turning a business into success.

h. Many compound nouns are formed by using one noun (as an adjective) in front of another noun. When this happens, the first noun is almost always singular (even if the meaning is plural).

a shoeshop (a shop which sells shoes)

We normally form plurals of compound nouns by adding -(e)s to the second word.

Foodstuffs belong to the category of perishable goods.

But note that compounds ending in -in-law, -in-chief and -by add -s to the first word.

one brother-in-law - two-brothers-in-law

a passer-by - some passers-by

editor-in-chief - editors-in-chief

But where men or women is prefixed both parts are made plural.

men drivers women drivers

i. Goods (товар), clothes (одежда), riches (богатство), proceeds (выручка), wages (заработная плата), contents (содержание) normally[22]occur only in the plural and are followed by a plural verb.

By “perishable” we mean goods which cannot be stored for any length of time without going bad.

Exercise 1