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Questions

Tutorial (1): Nouns (Part 1 & 2)

1. Which of the nouns below are Countable nouns and which are Uncountable?

a. balloon j. salt

b. cup k. flower

c. picture l. leaf

d. air m. bicycle

e. literacy n. gun

f. luck o. bed

g. feather p. money

h. jealousy q. hair

i. silence r. mouse


2. Fill in the blanks below with the singular or plural forms of the nouns in the brackets.

Jo What will you have?
Ani A (salad) _____ and a (coffee) _____, please.
Jo Ill have the same, Waiter!
Waiter May I take your order, sir?
Jo Two (salad) _____ and two (coffee) _____, please. Oh, and some garlic (bread)
_____, crisp on the outside. And, oh yes, two glasses of (water) _____, please.
Waiter Thank you, sir.


3. Change the singular nouns to plural nouns

Singular Noun Plural Noun
Bus
Piano
Coach
Bird
Nut
Torpedo
Dish
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Paper
Zoo
Flower
Fuse
Church
Couch
Radio
Illness
Day
Ray
City
Buoy
Key
Fly
Party
Canary
Toy
Library
Half
Knife
Leaf
Loaf
Scarf
Shelf
Thief
Chief
Wife
Life
Wolf
Cliff
Roof
Self
Belief
Child
Ox
Foot
Tooth
Man
Woman
Mouse
Goose




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4. Rewrite the words below to show that the second noun belong to the first noun.

Cat-paw: Cats paw

a. kitten-eyes l. book-pages

b. puppy-ball m. paper-colour

c. man-jacket n. computer-bytes

d. people-hunger o. door-bottom

e. Peggy-car p. clock-hands

f. boy-kite q. classroom-walls

g. babies-napkins r. picture-back

h. audience-nightmare s. bookcase-shelves

i. Salleh-bank

j. girls-book

k. pigeons-nests


5. After each sentence below, there are two nouns. Using the possessive s or of, with the nouns,
fill in the blanks. The first sentence has been done for you.

a. The leg of the chair (chair-leg) is broken.

b. _____ (Hashim-cat) ran away from home.

c. I am going to try and repair my _____ (my brother-car).

d. Do you know what _____ (clour-wall) is?

e. You should not have torn _____ (Tan Sri Jaafar-book).

f. This is _____ (Joe and Judy-car).

g. Have you seen _____ (pen-cover)?

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h. What is _____ (book-title)?

i. Do you have _____ (Chan-number)?

j. All _____ (tables-tops) in the canteen have marks on them.

k. The _____ (birds-nests) were pulled down and sold in the towns.