Exercise 4
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Exercise 3
Possessives usually replace articles before nouns. We can say the car or Peter's car, but not Peter's the car or the Peter's car. But a possessive word can have its own article: the boss's car. Note also: that car of Peter's, a friend of Peter's (like a friend of mine).
Put Ö for correct sentences; rewrite the incorrect ones.
1. Is Peter the Grant's nephew?
2. Consumer goods are products, such as food, clothing, and cars, that satisfy people's economic needs or wants.
3. Is this the manager's file?
4. Do you know John's last name?
5. Here is the Harper's address.
6. The answers to the questions depend on a country's human, natural, and capital resources, and also on its customs and values.
7. You also try to focus your partner's the attention on the difference between fixed, optional and flexible expenses.
8. That overspending of John's reached the peak of 1.5% .
9. What is the general relationship between a person's education and that individual's earning power?
10. The consumer's desire for a commodity tends to diminish as he buys more units of it.
11. What's the Wilsons' number?
12. It's a crazy idea of John Martin.
13. Where is that uncle of Peter's?
14. We can say that the utility of a commodity decreases as the consumer's stock of that commodity increases.
Supply a/an, the or “-”.
1. Mr. Buckhurst is … F.C.A.(= Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants).
2. John got … B.Sc. (= Bachelor of Science) from Durham University in 1988.
3. Do you know how much … MP (= Member of Parliament) earns?
4. We studied …BASIC (= Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) at the computer class.
5. Does Ukraine belong to … NATO (= North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
6. The shareholders are invited to attend … A.G.M. (= the Annual General Meeting).
7. … NASA (=National Aeronautics and Space Administration) had a setback in1986.
8. … I.Q. is a common abbreviation for an Intelligence Quotient.
9. … EEC (=the European Economic Community) established common tariffs against products from non-EEC nations.
10. … GATT (=General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) encompassed 22 countries in 1947, later the group expanded to somewhat about 100 countries.
11. The annual report contains a letter to the stockholders from ... CEO (the Chief Executive Officer) of the corporation.
Exercise 5
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