TASK 4. Decide if the sentences below are correct or have mistakes. Make the necessary corrections.

TASK 1. Sort out the nouns in the box into the categories given in the table below.

research travel sheep accommodation mice hair

furniture advice people information work beauty

news police politics scissors sun music

secrecy teeth health difficulty talk ice-cream

traffic money watch technology time success

weather sky experience funeral talent dust

TASK 2. Revise the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns given in the table and choose the right word in brackets to fill in the gaps in the sentences below.

1. We have imported ________ videos this year than last year. (fewer/less)

2. There has been ________ demand for videos this year than last year. (fewer/less)

3. ________ vehicles have just been recalled because of a design fault. (a lot of/a great deal of/a big amount of)

4. ________ effort has been put into this project, (a lot of/many/a great number of)

5. There isn't ________ hope of finding the wreck, (a great deal of/many/ a great number of)

6. There aren't ________ dictionaries that can compare with this one. (few/many/little)

7. ________ book was written by someone else (most/most of the/the majority of)

8. ________ magazines carry advertisements, (most/most of/a great amount of)

9. ________ metal is liable to rust. (most/most of/ a great amount of)

10. I'd like ________ milk in my coffee, please, (little/a little/few/fewer)

11. This room needs ________ pictures to brighten it up. (a few/few/ a great amount of)

12. ________ businesses have gone bankrupt this year, (a good deal of/several/a small amount)

13. There aren't ________ chocolates left! (any/some/little)

14. There isn't ________ time to waste, (any/some/no/none)

15. We've had ________ trouble with this machine already. (enough/hardly any/none of the)

16. There have been ________ accidents on this corner this year. (a good deal of/hardly any/ a small amount of)

17. We can't accept the estimates. ________ estimate is low enough. (either/neither/both)

18. ________ examples prove that I am right, (both/neither/either)

19. There have been ________ changes in the new edition. (no/any/none)

20. There has been ________ change in the new edition (no/any/a great number of/a great deal of)

TASK 3. Fill in the gaps with the quantifiers given in the box. The first one is done for you. You can use some words more than once.

any enough few hardly any many some

no any none plenty of very little

EXCUSES! EXCUSES!

You may be trying to buy a pair of shoes and there are too many (1) in your size and you can't choose, or there are too ________ (2). Shop assistants are good at inventing excuses. A ________ (3) days ago I was trying to buy ________ (4) birthday cards for three five-year-old children. There were ________ (5) cards for children, but ________ (6) for five-year-olds. 'Five is a very popular age this year ', the assistant said. 'We can't get ________ (7) cards for this age-group.' Then I went to ‘Do It Yourself’ shop and tried to buy ________ (8) orange paint. There was ________ (9) paint in the shop, but in the end I found ________ (10). Then I asked for two small paint brushes. ‘We don't have ________ (11),' the shop assistant explained. 'There's ________ (12) demand for them. No one ever asks for ________ (13). 'Yes, they do!’ I exclaimed. 'I'm asking for ________ (14) now!’

TASK 4. Decide if the sentences below are correct or have mistakes. Make the necessary corrections.

1. Researches into cancer have not yet come up with a cure.

2. Draughts are played on board with black and white squares.

3. What happened when you got to the check in? – We had too much luggage.

4. The public were waiting to see the hated hangman swing from his own gallows.

5. Mumps are an illness which is very dangerous for pregnant women.

6. Two military aircrafts were hanging above the water and the noise of their engines was deafening.

7. Could you lend me 5 pounds? – Sorry, I have no money on me. I left them in my hotel room.

8. There is always a heavy traffic in the centre of the city, that is why jams are frequent.

9. When she came home there were some bad news waiting for her.

10. There was so little furniture in the flat that we hardly found any chairs to sit all the people.

11. What a glorious weather! I don’t remember such hot April!

12. You are not eating anything! Have some fruits, please.

13. The advices you gave me were really useful. I’m so grateful!

14. The number of sheep in the flock is close to 100 heads.

15. The main criteria for buying goods is value for money.

16. Don’t throw pearls before swines.

17. Parenthesis are sentences added to a speech or a piece of writing to give extra information.

18. These Picasso’s paintings will form the nuclei of the new museum collection.

19. Terrorism is a phenomenon of the 20^th century.

20. In everybody’s opinion the headmaster’s politics is extreme.

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