Living English Structure - Key to the Exercises [antikvár]

KEY TO EXERCISES Alternatives are given in brackets; alternatives in square brackets not recommended. Ex. 1. All nouns into plural without article, except the uncountables: wood, milk, tea, meat, flour, ink. Ex. 2. All nouns into singular with indefinite article: a(n). Ex. 3. (x=absence of article.) 1. a/x/x. 2. x/a. 3. x. 4. a/x. 5. a/a. 6. x/an. 7. a/x. 8. a/a. 9. a/x. 10. a/x/x. 11. x/a. 12. a/x. 13. a/x. 14. a/x. 15. a/x. 16. x/a. 17. x. 18. an/a. 19. a/x. 20. x/a. 21. x/a. 22. a/x. 23. a/x/x. 24. x/a/x. 25. a/x/a. Ex. 4. (x=absence of article; s=some). 1. a. 2. x/a. 3. an/a. 4. x. 5. s. 6. s/a. 7. a/s. 8. a/a. 9. a/x/a. 10. (s)/x. 11. a/x/x (s). 12. a/x/x. 13. x/x. 14. x/a. 15. s/a. 16. x/x. 17. a/s. 18. x. 19. a/x. 20. a/s. Ex. 5. (Fr^ The edible plants in the note at the end of the exercise are not normally found with the indefinite article because we use only a part of them at a time : a small piece of garlic is broken off for flavouring, or a leaf or two of mint, dill, rosemary or other herbs. Spinach is uncountable because we see only a large heap of leaves to chop up ; but we talk of a cabbage because we buy the plant whole and so feel it to be a reasonable unit. Ex. 6. (x=absence of article.) la. 2x. 3a. 4x. 5a. 6x. 7a. 8x. 9a. lOx. llx. 12a. 13a. 14x. 15a. Ex. 7. (x—absence of article; s—some; t—the.) 1. x(s)/x. 2. a/t. 3. a/t. 4. a/t. 5. a/a. 6. t/s. 7. t/a/t. 8. a/a. 9. a(t)/x. 10. a(t)/x. 11. s/a. 12. t(a)/a. 13. x/x. 14. x/x. 15. t/t. IQ. s/t. 17. a/x. 18. a(t)/t/t/a. 19. a/a. 20. a/t. 21. s/t. 22. a/x. 23. a/t/t/a(t). 24. a/a. 25. a/t. Ex. 8. (x = absence of article; s—some; t=the.) 1. a/t. 2. t/x/t/x/x. 3. x/t. 4. t/an/x. 5. t/x/x/a/t/x. 6. a/x/a. 7. x/t. 8. t/t/x. 9. x/a/t/t/s. 10. x/x. 11. s/t. 12. x/x. 13. x/t/x(t). 14. x/a/x. 15. a/a/x. 16. a/t. 17. x/a/x. 18. s/x. 19. an/t. 20. t. 21. t/a/x. 22. a/x/x(s)/x. 23. a/x/s/a/x. 24. t/t. 25. a/s. Ex. 9. 1. can't/can he. 2. hasn't/has she. 3. mustn't/must I. 4. isn't/is he. 5. haven't/have they. 6. can't/can you. 7. I'm not/am I. 8. can't/can we. 9. mustn't/must she. 10. aren't/are they. 11. mustn't/ must you. 12. can't/can he. 13. haven't/have you. 14. can't/can she. 15. mustn't/must I. 16. I'm not/am I. 17. can't/can they. 18. mustn't/ must you. 19. hasn't/has he. 20. can't/can I. Ex. 10. 1. doesn't like/does John like? etc., throughout. Ex. 12. 1. ad lib. 2. his/hers. 3. your/mine/her. 4. mine/yours. 5. their/theirs. 6. his/yours. 7. ad lib. 8. mine/yours (or vice versa). 9. his/mine. 10. our/hers. Ex. 13. 1. yours (or others). 2. yours. 3. his. 4. theirs. 5. mine. 6. theirs. 7. yours/mine. 8. yours (his). 9. hers. 10. ours. Ex. 14. 1. yours/mine/myself. 2. herself. 3. her/herself. 4. myself.