II. Choose the correct word or phrase.
1. Let’s go to the ________ .
| a) Smiths | b) Smiths’ | c) Smith’s | d) Smith |
2. ________ room is upstairs.
| a) Deans | b) Dean’s | c) Deans’ | d) Dean |
3. ________ bags have blue stickers.
| a) Susan’s and Steve’s | b) Susan and Steve’s | c) Susan and Steve | d) Susan and Steves’ |
4. ________ projects were quite impressive.
| a) Student’s | b) Students’ | c) Students | d) Student |
5. ________ room is on the second floor.
| a) Men’s | b) Man’s | c) Mens | d) Mens’ |
III. Put “A” if the underlined noun in the sentence is abstract, and “C” if it is concrete.
1. _______ Democracy is the best kind of government.
2. _______ Curiosity killed the cat.
3. _______ Patience is a virtue.
4. _______ The school needed new desks.
5. _______ There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
6. _______ The Chinese culture is ancient.
7. _______ Yesterday, I saw a good movie.
8. _______ Trust is a two-way street.
9. _______ Eat your vegetables to stay healthy.
IV. Put “C” if the underlined noun in the sentence is countable, and “U” if it is uncountable.
1. _______ I really love chocolate!
2. _______ She has coffee every morning.
3. _______ The dollar is the name of the official currency of many countries.
4. _______ You need to change the oil in the car.
5. _______ I have three final tests tomorrow.
THE NUMERAL
I. Choose the correct word or phrase.
1. Independence Day, commonly known as ________, is a federal holiday in the United States.
| a) the Fourth of July | b) Fourth of July | c) Fours of July |
2. Kate is having a party for her ____________ birthday.
| a) twenty-two | b) twenty-second | c) twenty-twoth |
3. I felt very bad during my ___________ trip.
| a) fivth-hour | b) fivehour | c) five-hour |
4. Her sister is __________ years old. She is tall and she has long curly hair.
| a) twenty-seven | b) twenty-seventh | c) twentieth-seven |
5) He died on __________, in the seventy-second year of his age.
| a) twenty-fifth of May | b) twenty five | c) the twenty-fifth of May |
6) When Mary was in her _____________, she left her city.
| a) twenty | b) twenties | c) twentyies |
7) Susan has been the ___________ girl to win such an expensive award since 2000.
| a) forteenth | b) fourteenth | c) fourtenth |
8) Ted was the ___________ citizen born in this city.
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| a) nine millions | b) nine millionthes | c) nine millionth |
Write all the numbers and symbols in full, according to the way they are pronounced.
16.5
17.38 %
0.185
£ 7.80
€ 3.15
₣ 250
3560
598,347
1,300,402
1 m
3 bn
September 7, 2012
April 6, 2000
VERB
Passive Voice
I. Rewrite the following sentence in Active voice.
1. The program was written by our leading programmer.
2. Figures should be checked more carefully.
3. It is said that women live longer than men.
4. The proposal has been rejected by the committee.
5. Billion photos are uploaded to Facebook by users every month.
6. This program was developed in Java by our software specialists.
7. The research results will be presented at the meeting by Kristina.
Rewrite the following sentence in Passive voice.
1. They sent technician solve the problem.
2. Steve Jobs founded NeXT, a computer platform development company.
3. People always admire this picture.
4. No one has opened this box for the last hundreds years.
5. People speak English all over the world.
6. People will forget it soon.
7. We should give teenagers an opportunity to get a job.
III. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. The children ________ to the zoo next week.
| a) are taken | b) will be taken | c) will take | d) will be taking |
2. She ________ by a strange noise.
| a) was waken | b) waken | c) was wake | d) has waken |
3. I hate ________ like a child.
| a) having treated | b) to treat | c) treating | d) being treated |
4. Christo loves ________.
| a) being appreciated | b) to be appreciate | c) to appreciate | d) having appreciated |
5. The permission ________ never ________.
| a) will/be give | b) will/be given | c) would/be given | d) is/give |
6. The bus stop ________.
| a) will vandalized | b) has vandalized | c) has been vandalized | d) was vandalized |
7. The whole gang ________ yesterday.
| a) arrested | b) was arrested | c) has been arrested | d) will be arrested |
8. The train may ________ by the storm.
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| a) be delay | b) to delay | c) delayed | d) have been delayed |
IV. Rewrite the following paragraph using Passive voice.
Somebody gave me a goat for my birthday last year. They had bought it from a farm down the road. We keep it tied to a tree in our garden. My father normally looks after it, but last week his company sent him abroad on business. A few days later, our neighbour called me to the window. I hadn’t tied the goat up properly. The goat was eating her washing!
V. Complete the article with passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
There is an old castle in Norwich which (1) ________ is believed (believe) to (2) ________ (haunt). It (3) ________ (call) North Castle and it (4) ________ (say) that ghosts can (5) ________ (see) there at night. The castle (6) ________ (build) 400 years ago and (7) ________ (own) by two old ladies who (8) ________ (believe) to bewitches. One day, long ago, they both disappeared and they (9) ________ (never/see) again. In 1985 the castle (10) ________ (buy) by a businessman and (11) ________ (convert) into a luxurious hotel. The castle (12) ________ (visit) by quite a few guests every year and special groups (13) ________ (organise) to watch for ghosts. been a long time since any ghosts (14) ________ (see), but one night a (15) ________ (play) on some visitors by a local couple, who dressed up as the “witches”. They (16) ________ (see) by a guest, who said she (17) ________ (frighten) almost to death. The couple apologised the next day, and (18) ________ (tell) never to visit castle again, certainly not in the middle of the night dressed up as witches.
REPORTED SPEECH
Statements
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