Concord - Exercises

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SY1BE: Concord - Exercises

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1. Here are seven groups of nouns. Look in the box and find two more nouns to add to each group.

Aircraft, crisis, dozen, mathematics, means, mouse, news, police, scissors, sheep, shelf, thousand,
tooth, wolf,

1. COUNTABLE NOUNS WITH SINGULAR (AND PLURAL) IN –s

Series, crossroads, analysis – analyses

2. OTHER NOUNS WITH SINGULAR AND PLURAL THE SAME

Trout, deer, fish, salmon

3. NOUNS THAT HAVE A PLURAL WITHOUT –s AFTER A NUMBER

Hundred (two hundred) million

4. NOUNS WITH SINGULAR IN –f(e), PLURAL IN –ves

Calf – calves half knife leaf life loaf self thief wife

5. OTHER NOUNS WITH IRREGULAR PLURALS

Child – children, foot – feet ,fungus – fungi,goose – geese

Man – men, medium – media, ox – oxen, penny – pence

Phenomenon – phenomena, woman – women

6. UNCOUNTABLE SINGULAR NOUNS ENDING IN –s (NORMALLY NO

PLURAL)

Athletics, billiards,economics, gymnastics, measles, physics, politics

7. PLURAL NOUNS WITH NO SINGULAR

Arms, belongings, cattle, clothes, congratulations, contents, earnings,

goods, outskirts, people, remains, surroundings, thanks, troops, trousers

Swan, M.& Walter, C. How English Works, OUP

2. Choose the best combination for each blank

class is/are, club has/have, orchestra is/are, school has/have,
staff does/do

1a In England, a state…………….to give time to religious education.

1b My daughter´s……………..decided to hold their sports day next Saturday.

2a The ………..given 5, 000 pounds to charity this year.

2b The…………..fifty per cent more members than a year ago.

3a The …………………not like the new manager.

3b The …….. not need to be increased.

4a Jane´s ……………………in Room 6.

4b Our……planning a party.

5a The …… just tuning up – let´s hurry in.

5b An ……………………. composed of string, wind, and percussion instruments.

Swan, M., Walter, C. How English Works, OUP

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3. Choose the right verb

1. A group of teenagers in the town (has/have) organised a scheme to help old people with their shopping.
2. A number of people (has/have) complained about the noise.
3. Do you think three pounds (is/are) a big enough tip?
4. Hamburger and chips (is/are) not very healthy lunch.
5. In the latest rail union vote, the majority (has/have) voted to go on strike; the rest of the members (is/are)