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1. When he goes shopping,he usually_______ the most expensive things.

     a) chooses
     b) is choosing
    c) is chosen
    d) is being chosen

2.Can you imagine ? Jill still _______ in fairy tales !

   a) has believed
   b) belives
   c) is believing
   d) is believed

3.Every time we ______ Mary,she says something nice to my wife.

   a) saw
   b) have seen
   c) see
   d) are seeing

4.When you get to the end of this street, you______the palace.

  a) are seeing
  b) had seen
  c) will see
  d) were seen

5.When he plays football,he always_____ a window in the neighbourhood

 a) breaks
 b) is breaking
 c) is broken
 d) is being broken


Answers:

1.a    2.b   3.c    4.c    5.a

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The plural of nouns

In the English language nouns are divided into countables and uncountables according to whether they can be counted or not.


                              Countables :                                      Uncountables :
                                
                                   student                                               butter
                                    dog                                                    love
                                    book                                                  sugar
                                    pancil                                                 bread

Picture 1: Countables and uncountables nouns

As  a rule the indefinite article a/an precedes only countables in the singular.

Examples :

A women wants to see you.
Father gave me an apple.

Numbers are used only before countables.

Examples :

There are five chairs in the room.

Countabeles may be preceded by :many,few, a few, a large number of, a small number of, etc; while the uncountables may be preceded by: much, little, a piece of, an item of,etc.

Examples :

There are many boys and girls running in the park.
She has a few friends.
I have much work to do today.
Mary has three pieces of luggage.

 1.The plural of nouns is formed by adding -s or -es to the noun in the singular.Most nouns form their plural by adding -s :

Examples :

street- streets                          name-names
boy- boys                                 cup-cups

2. Nouns ending in -s, -ss,-ch, -(t)ch,-x,-z, add -es in the plural.

Examples :

bus-busses             glass-glasses             beach- beaches       watch-watches            box-boxes


3.Nouns ending in  -y preceded by a consonant change the -y into i and add -es in the plural.


Examples:

country-countries             story-stories                  city-cities                reply-replies

 *Note : 

But :  Mary- Marys,  Molly-Mollys,  Betty-Bettys

4.Nouns ending in -y preceded by 1 vowel form their plural by adding -s.

               day-days             play-plays                boy-boys                   tray-trays


5.  13 nouns ending in -f or -fe change -f into -v and add -es in the plural

knife-knives      life-lives       wife-wives    leaf-leaves     half-halves      shelf-shelves    loaf-loaves
thief-thieves     self-selves   wolf-wolves  calf-calves      elf-elves         sheaf-sheaves 


*Note :
All other nouns ending in -f take only -s in the plural :
roof-roofs     proof-proofs       cliff-cliffs


Double forms :

 scarf-scarfs-scarves                      hoof-hoofs-hooves                wharm-wharfs-wharves

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Prepositional phrase

A phrase is a group of words without a subject and verb, used as one part of speech. (There are
several types of phrases including the verb phrase, noun phrase, and prepositional phrase.)

 The prepositional phrase consists of the preposition, its object, and modifiers of the object. The
object of the preposition is always a noun, pronoun, or a group of words used as a noun.
 To find the object of the preposition, first say the preposition, then ask, "Whom or what?" 

 Example:

                                           The coin fell (between the cracks.) 


 Between is the preposition in the above sentence. To find the object of the preposition ask
"Between what?" The noun "cracks" answers the question, so it is the object of the preposition.


 Prepositional phrases are used as adjectives or adverbs.


 A.. When prepositional phrases are used as adjectives, the phrase comes immediately after the
noun or pronoun it modifies. The phrase answers one of the following questions about the
word it modifies: Which one? What kind of? How many? Whose?
My check (for the dress) is in the mail.
 The prepositional phrase, "for the dress," tells which check. The phrase is used as an
adjective modifying the noun "check."


 B. When prepositional phrases are used as adverbs, they may be found any place in the sentence.
The adverb phrase tells how, when, where, or under what condition about a verb, adjective, or
adverb.
The boy fell (on the steps.)
 The phrase "on the steps" tells where the boy fell. It modifies the verb "fell" and is used as an
adverb.

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Adverbs

 We use adverbs to give more information about the verb

.

Adverbs answer any of the following questions about verbs:

how?    when?    where?     why?

                         

We use adverbials of manner to say how something happens or how something is done:

The children were playing happily.
He was driving as fast as possible.

We use adverbials of place to say where something happens:

I saw him there.
We met in London.

We use adverbials of time to say when or how often something happens:

They start work at six thirty.
They usually go to work by bus.

We use adverbials of probability to show how certain we are about something.

• Perhaps the weather will be fine.
• He is certainly coming to the party.