5785 noun structures

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Read and translate the following compound nouns. Find compounds
which are countable (8), uncountable (6) and those which are used
either in the singular (6) or the plural (6).

Match the words on the left (1-10) with their
definitions on the right (a-j).

heart attack, greenhouse effect, luxury
goods, pedestrian crossing, contact lens,
package holiday, food poisoning, mother
tongue, birth control, road works, human
rights, arms race, alarm clock, pocket money,
hay fever, blood donor, blood pressure, data
processing, generation gap, kitchen scissors,
assembly line, sunglasses, labor force, race
relations, windscreen wiper, brain drain
CountableUncountableSingularPlural

Exercise 3
Rewrite the following phrases according to the
example.
Example: a factory which produces automobiles —
an automobile
factory a man who drives a bus — a bus driver
a machine that
washes dishes — a dish washer paper for writing
letters — writing paper

1) a shop that sells books2) an editor of a newspaper3) a person who pays taxes4) a brush for shoes5) cake made with raisin6) a garage for cars7) a company which provides
insurance8) a bag made of leather9) a tool for sharpening pencils10) a book which has cheques-

1) a baby-sitter
language
2) a traffic jam
pay on your
3) a box office
where you buy

a) your first

b) money you
salary
c) an office
tickets for

trains
4) mother tongue
where you buy

d) an office
tickets for

cinemas
5) income tax
patrols

e) a person who

streets to make
sure you are not parked in the wrong place
illegally
6) handcuffs
f) a knife for
opening
tins
7) greenhouse effect
g) a person
who looks
after children
their parents are out
Exercise when
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8) ticket
officeaccording to
h)the
a long
line of
Make up compound
structures
example.
carswho is five years old — a five year old child
Example: a child
which move
1.a man whose height is six feetslowly because the road is busy
9) a traffic warden
i) it is caused by
hair

2) a walk
which covers three milessprays and old
fridges
3) a program
which
hour10) a tin
openerlasts half
j) an
every
policeman has
them and a
4) a flight which takes two hours

half5) a hotel having four stars6) a lorry which can carry 5 tonnes7) a field of fifty acres-

Exercise 5
Paraphrase the sentences according to the example.
Example: She's got a flat of two rooms. — She's got a two-room flat.
His trip lasted four days. — He had a four-day trip,

1. He covered a distance of two miles.

2.Her holiday in California lasted 10 days
3. They decided to take an interval of three hours.
4. His call to Paris lasted five minutes.
5. While I was on holiday I met two charming girls of twenty years old.
7. He saw a film of two series yesterday.


Keys

Countable: heart attack, pedestrian crossing, contact -lens, package holiday, alarm clock, blood
donor, assembly linе, windscreen wiper
Uncountable: food poisoning, birth control, pocket money, hay fever, blood pressure, data
processing
Singular: greenhouse effect, mother tongue, arms race, generation gap, labor force, brain drain
Plural: luxury goods, road works, human rights, kitchen scissors, sunglasses, race relations
Ex2
1 g, 2h, 3d, 4a, 5b, 6j, 7i, 8c, 9e, lOf
Ex 3
1) a book shop; 2) a newspaper editor; 3) a tax payer;
4) a shoe brush; 5) raisin cake; 6) a car garage; 7) an Insurance company; 8) a leather bag; 9) a
pencil sharpener; 10) a check book;
.Ex 4
A 1) a six-foot tall man; 2) a three-mile walk; 3) a half-an-hour programme; 4) a two-hour-anda-half flight;
5) a four-star hotel; 6) a five-tonne lorry; 7) a fifty-acre field
Ex.5
1. He covered a two-mile distance. 2. She had a ten-day holiday in California. 3. They decided
to take a three-hour interval. 4. She lives in a sixteen-storey building. 5. She had a five-minute
call to Paris. 6. While I was on holiday I met two charming twenty-year old girls. 7. He saw a
two-series film yesterday.