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Exercise 8. Complete the sentences using the plurals of the nouns in brackets.
Example: I like oranges, apples, peaches and strawberries.
(orange/apple/peach/strawberries).
1. They’ve got five child, three girls and two boys.
2. London has many different restaurants, theatres, cinemas and discos.
3. When he fell over, he broke two of his teeth.
4. We’ve got enough plates but we need some more knives and forks.
5. On their tour of Europe, they visited seven countries in six days.
6. Cat hunt mouse.
7. Do you know those person over there?
8. These shoes are too small for me. They hurt my feet.
9. We’ve got some eggs and tomatoes, but we haven’t got any potatoes.
10.Autumn is coming. The leaves are starting to fall from trees.
Exercise 9. Choose the correct form. In one sentence either answer is possible.
Example: There were/ was a lot of people at the party.
1. Economics is an interesting subject.
2. My shorts have a hole in them.
3. Measles isn’t a very common disease in Britain.
4. My family lives in the North of England.
5. The news was quite surprising.
6. ‘Is this your scissors? ‘Yes, they it is.’
7. Two weeks isn’t a very long time, is it they?
8. My hair is quite greasy. It needs washing.