Plural of nouns

Variant 1

1. Use the right form of the verb be.

1. The information about this company ... encouraging.

4. They ... a big family, with many branches.

5. This equipment ... for camping.

6. Where ... your clothes made?

7. The headphones on my new walkman ... great.

8. Yesterday's homework ... rather difficult.

9. Her luggage ... on the scales already.

10. Your advice ... very timely. Thank you.

11. The hospital staff ... all very young.

12. Judging by the fact that Malfoy usually had the best of everything, his family ... rolling in gold.

1. Give the plural of:

A. a piano,a knife, a roof, a half,a chief, a queue, a bath,a fireman, a swine, a house, a louse, a mongoose, a deer, a means, a series, an aircraft, a Swiss,a Maltese, a forget-me-not,a man-of-war, a commander-in-chief, a hanger-on, a spoonful,

cactus, antenna, curriculum, index (in mathematics, in books), analysis, crisis, criterion.

Variant 2

1. Use the right form of the verb be.

1. My knowledge of German ... very limited.

2. These shorts ... too long.

3. The scissors ... here a minute ago.

4. The Government ... of the opinion that money in the accounts ... siphoned out of the country.

5. These trousers ... too tight.

6. The weather ... fabulous in Italy in early autumn.

7. ... the scales over there electronic?

8. There ... a hair on my dinner plate.

9. The news ... too good to be true.

10. The team ... no more than seven young men.

11. She came from a large, close-knit, and loving clan who ... always there to protect and help each other.

2. Give the plural of:

a berry, a valley, a century, a salmon, a taxi, a person, a penny, a watch, a virtuoso, a lily, a woodworm, a German, a foot, a species, a sheep, a Japanese, , a cliff, a passer-by, a mother-in-law, a boy-messenger, a face-lift, a cupful, fungus, radius, formula (in science), hypothesis, oasis, basis, axis, phenomenon.