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1. Where ... the glasses?

2. Money ... not everything.

3. There ... a lot of sheep in the field.

4. Knowledge ... power.

5. Can I borrow your scissors? Mine ... not sharp enough.

6. My hair ... clean.

7. No news ... good news.

8. The crowd ... enormous.

9. The crowd around me ... obviously enjoying their day-out at the races.

10. There ... quite a number of people watching the game.

1. Julia's clothes ... in her wardrobe.

2. Our team ... the best.

3. The team ... discussing strategy now.

4. The United States ... situated in North America.

5. Wages ... paid to workmen by the day or week.

6. Monty's family ... about the same social status as my own.

7. What ... your politics?

8. My family ... early risers.

9. Phonetics ... a branch of linguistics.

10. The biggest time waster ... meetings.

1. Your jeans ... too tight.

2. Your trousers ... too long.

3. The arms ... old.

4. Where ... my spectacles?

5. There ... very many people here.

6. Draughts ... not a complicated game.

7. Billiards ... a game played with balls and long tapering sticks called cues on an oblong, cloth-covered table.

8. A new glass works ... not far from the city.

9. The pair of trousers ... cheap.

10. The police ... looking for a fair-haired man in his twenties.

1. The family ... fond of their house.

2. There ... five people in the room now.

3. There ... a wardrobe, two arm-chairs, a sofa and a coffee table in the room.

4. Twenty miles ... a long way to walk.

5. The majority of criminals ... non-violent.

6. Some of these people ... friends of mine and the rest ... people from the office.

7. A lot of social problems ... caused by unemployment.

8. A couple of my friends ... going to open a travel agency.

9. Statistics ... useful in language testing.

10. Everybody ... ready.

1. There ... two fish in the basket.

2. The summons ... already overdue.

3. The job is unpaid, but quite a number of people ... willing to un­dertake it.

4. When the News ... over, we'll have supper.

5. I know that there ... a lot of trouble, but I don't know who was behind it.

6. Where ... the greens?

7. My watch ... on the table.

8. The most important news ... broadcast on this channel.

9. There ... hardly any furniture in this room.

10. What colour ... your new trousers?

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1. James Dough shot down thirteen enemy (craft, craftes, crafts).

2. The (wolves, wolfs) have been shot.

3. My sister has a (two-months old, two-month old) baby.

4. He showed me the (photoes, photos) of his country house.

5. They found the only (means, mean's, mean) to cross the river was to swim.

6. Accidents cause a lot of (damages, damage), be careful.

7. All the available (data, datum, dates) show that the revolution started in the 18^u century.

8. Three (policemen, policeman, policemans) were present there.

9. He goes out in all (weather, weathers).

10. He had many hilarious (experiences, experience, experienses) to tell us.

1. (Pence, pennies) are made of bronze.

2. It costs 25 (pennies, pence).

3. They became successful (businessmen, businessman).

4. News (travel, travels, are travelling) fast.

5. The police (want, wants) to interview Fred about the accident.

6. The sunlit (roofs, rooves, roofes) look wonderful.

7. Last Saturday we went fishing, but we didn't catch many (fishes, fish, fishs).

8. We'd like three (dozens, dozen, dozens of) eggs.

9. It costs three (hundred, hundreds) dollars.

10. On the table there are apples, plums and other (fruit, fruits).

1. I don't want (advice, an advice, advices) or help.

2. There are too many (mouses, mice, mices) in the barn.

3. (Children, childrens) usually inherit some characteristics from their father and some from their mother.

4. I bought three (grouses, grouse) for dinner.

5. We met many (Japaneses, Japanese) on our holiday.

6. The first class passengers filed before the captain as solemn as (oxes, oxen, ox).

7. There seemed to be varying (criteriums. criteria, criterias) for the treatment of passengers.

8. The (hangers-on, hanger's-on, hanger-ons) stared at us as though we were curious (phenomenons, phenomena, phenomenas).

9. The (deer, deers, deeres) were ravaging the man's fields.

10. He ordered two (gin-and-tonics, gins-and-tonic, gins-and-tonics).

1. Her favourite flowers are (forgets-me-nots, forgets-me-not, for­get-me-nots).

2. The girls are filling the watering tub for the cow and three (sheep, sheeps).

3. I cast four times and had four (trout, trouts. troutses).

4. She isn't one of those horrid regular (beautys, beauty, beauties).

5. There are many (gooses, geese, geeses) in the field.

6. You should clean your (tooths, teeth, teeths) every morning.

7. There were two (safes, saves) in the corner.

8. The house is nice but the (surroundings aren't, surrounding isn't) very pleasant.

9. The ships were bringing (cargoes, cargos) from all over the world.

10. There are three (salmons, salmon) in the aquarium.