HOMEWORK – File 1 Student: Vesna Zdravkovic

1. Find all the nouns, determiners and adjectives in the following text. Mark the nouns in red,
determiners in green and adjectives in blue (omit passive constructions):

The Secret Garden was written by

American author Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The novel centres on Mary Lennox, who is
living in India with her wealthy British
family. She is a selfish and disagreeable 10-
year-old girl who has been spoiled by her
servants and neglected by her unloving
parents. When a cholera epidemic kills her
parents and the servants, Mary is
orphaned. After a brief stay with the family
of an English clergyman, she is sent to
England to live with a widowed uncle,
Archibald Craven, at his huge Yorkshire
estate, Misselthwaite Manor. Her uncle is
rarely at Misselthwaite, however. Mary is
brought to the estate by the head
housekeeper, the fastidious Mrs. Medlock,
who shuts her into a room and tells her not to explore the house.

2. Use three adjectives from each box and place them in the correct order to describe the given
objects:

interesting, history,
heavy, red, British, big →interesting, British, history book

racing, beautiful, Japanese,

black, two, small, metal →black, Japanese, racing cars

Turkish, lovely, residential,

pink, medieval, wooden →lovely, medieval, residential house

old, triangular, tall,

Egyptian leather brown → old, triangular, Egyptian lamp

fabulous, French, ancient,

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 golden, star-shaped, royal → ancient, golden, royal crown

3. Make a pair of short sentences for each of the nouns, once as countable and one as non-
countable:

experience
Countable use: → I have a lot of experience from past.
Uncountable use: → I have experience with computers.

time
Countable use: → I took a long time to finish that presentation.
Uncountable use: →Can we meet some other time?

light
Countable use: →Please turn off all the lights in the room.
Uncountable use: →You need more light in this room.

work
Countable use: → A work of art.
Uncountable use: → We have a lot of work.

memory
Countable use: → I have a bad memory for names.
Uncountable use: → It was the worst storm in recent memory.

paper
Countable use: → I saw some interesting headlines in today’s paper.
Uncountable use: → Give me that red paper to wrap this gift.

noise
Countable use: → What’s that noise?
Uncountable use: → Noise is unbearable.

iron
Countable use: → Let the iron get hot before you starting ironing.
Uncountable use: → This pot is made of iron.

4. Identify the adjectives in the following sentences and label them for their syntactic function:

1) That is a very nice necklace. → attributive

2) These expensive shoes are very fashionable. →predicative
3) There is something strange around here. →predicative
4) Suzan is an attorney general. →postpositive
5) My younger sister is a cheer-leader. →attributive
6) My uncle drives a fast car. →attributive

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 7) This book appears interesting. →predicative
8) She seems very nice. →predicative

9) My grandmother was a very kind person. →predicative

5. Use the images to help you compose the appropriate noun phrases (quantifer + noun):

1 2 3

4 5 6

1) → five(a few) bottles of juice

2) → two pennies
3) → oxygen bottle
4) → two glasses of water
5) → slices of bread
6) → a pile of sand

6. Replace the empty lines with the missing articles (a, the or /):

At __the____ age of 33, which is _the_____ age of adulthood among __the____ hobbits,
__/____ Frodo Baggins receives ____a__ magic Ring of ____the__ Invisibility from his uncle
____/__ Bilbo. _/_____ Frodo, ___a___ Christ-like figure, learns that ___the___ ring has
___/___ power to control ___the___ entire world and, he discovers, to corrupt its owner.
___The___ fellowship of ___the___ hobbits, elves, dwarfs, and men is formed to destroy
__the____ ring by casting it into __/____ volcanic fires of __the____ Crack of Doom, where it
was forged. They are opposed on their harrowing mission by ___an___ evil Sauron and his Black
Riders.

7. Think of 5 nouns that are plural only and use them in a sentence:

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 1) → Please put your headphones on.
2) → You have nice, new glasses.
3) → This jeans are very old.
4) → Bring your shorts, we are going to the beach.
5) → This scissors are sharp because they are new.

8. Think of 5 nouns that can have a different meaning when in singular or plural and write a
sentence for each to demonstrate the difference in meaning:

1) →I have some pain in the left arm.

→In war we must use arms to protect our country.

2) →He did it in a clever manner.

→His manners are rude.

3) →In Christmas Eve, we have a custom to say at home with our family.
→What is our income from customs duty?

4) →Under what circumstance did you do it?

→Her circumstances are poor.

5) →My premise is wrong.

→A meeting was held in the school premises.

9. Underline all the possible options to complete these sentences:

1) __Either_____ of the parents can participate in the show.

a) Neither b) Much c) No d) Either

2) Susan was overwhelmed when the __whole_____ class congratulated her on her success.

a) all b) whole c) neither d) half

3) Would you like __some_____ tea?

a) any b) much c) some d) either of

4) I am sorry, but I must go, I don’t have __much_____ time!

a) no b) a lot of c) much d) any

5) There are _many______ dogs in our backyard.

a) many b) plenty of c) none d) no

6) Those_______ glasses over there certainly aren’t mine!

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 a) That b) These c) All d) Those

7) Your house is __a lot_____ taller than mine.

a) much b) most c) a lot d) neither

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