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Table – tables, Chair – chairs, Computer – computers

Box-boxes, Class-classes, Dish – dishes, Bus- buses,

City – cities, Country-countries, Copy– copies

Play- plays, Day-days, Way-ways

Knife – knives, shelf – shelves, life – lives

Исключения: foot – feet, tooth – teeth, child – children,

an index – indices, a crisis- crises

Исключения: foot – feet, tooth – teeth, child – children,

an index – indices, a crisis- crises

Существительные, имеющие форму только мн. ч.

Clothes / Trousers / Goods / Scissors / Means

Pliers / Glasses / Shorts

Существительные, имеющие форму только ед. ч.

Business / Hair / Information / Progress

Luggage / Furniture / Knowledge // Love

Fruit / Money / News / Advice

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Exercise №1

– Are there many (copy, copies)?

– I suppose about hundred or more.

– It’s a lot of. I don’t know how to manage it.

– The (information, informations) in those (copy, copies) is

important, isn’t it?

– I don’t think so. The (document, documents) are very old.

– Then put all (paper, papers) into the (box, boxes) and carry

them to the archive.

Exercise №1.1

– These (table, tables) are very nice and not expensive.

– Yes, you’re right. Look at those (chair, chairs), aren’t they

well-designed? Let’s buy them.

– How many (chair, chairs) do you want to take?

– Four I think. Please, ask shop assistant where we can buy

(dish, dishes)?

– She told me that everything for kitchen we could buy

at section10. It’s upstairs. There’s a big choice of (dish/dishes,

cup/cups, pan/pans, teapot-teapots) and many other things.

– Do you have cash?

– Sure, don’t think of it.

– I wonder if they have (box, boxes) to pack all these things.

Exercise №1.2

– What’s up? Frankly speaking you look very bad!

– I didn’t sleep all night. I have a toothache. My (tooth, teeth)

is terribly ill. I visited the dentist and he checked all

my (tooth, teeth) last month. Everything was ok.

– You should go to the dentist right now.

– I can’t, I must finish translation of these

(contract, contracts).

– Bay the way, did you see (scissorses, scissors)?

– Yes, look on my table, over there next to

my (glasses, glass).

– I didn’t know that you wore (glass, glasses).

– You see, I always wear eye-lens. But now I have

a little problem with my (eyes, eye), so temporary wear

(glass, glasses).

Exercise №1.3

– I want to have my (hairs, hair) cut. I fed up of long (hairs,

hair).

– It’s not my (business, businesses), if you want you can

do it any moment.

– You know Pamela, don’t you? She cats her (hair, hairs) every

month and always looks beautiful.

– Do you have any (informations, information) regarding

to that case?

– I know just that a lot of (fornitures, furniture) was

stolen from their office.

– We left our (luggages, luggage) at the entrance. Could you

please bring it here?