1 GRAMMAR PRACTICE NOUNS (CONT) Exercise 1: Correct the errors where necessary. 1. It’s important for every students to have a book. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2. Each of the students in my class has a book. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 3. The teacher gave each of students a test paper. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4. Every student in the class did well on the test. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 5. Spain is one of the country I want to visit. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 6. Every furniture in that room is made of wood. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 7. One of our equipments in our office is broken. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 8. I gave a present to each of the women in the room. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 9. One of my favorite place in the world is an island in the Caribbean Sea. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 10.Each one of your suitcases will be checked when you go through customs. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 11.It’s impossible for one human being to know every languages in the world. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 12.I found each of the error in this exercise. ……………………………………………………………………………………… 2 Exercise 2: Fill in the gaps with a/ an/ the where necessary. 1. We need to get ……….new phone. 2. Alex, would you please answer ……….phone? 3. …….people use …….plants in many different ways. Plants supply us with oxygen. They are a source of ……….lifesaving medicine. We use plant products to build ……..houses and to make………..paper and ……..textiles. 4. ……..biggest bird in the world is…….ostrich. It eats just about anything it can reach, including …….stones, ……glass, and …….keys. It can kill…….person with one kick. 5. In…….recent newspaper article, I read about ………Australian swimmer who was saved from ……..shark by ……group of dolphins. When…..shark attacked …..swimmer, ……..dolphins chased it away. They saved ……..swimmer’s life. 6. I heard on the radio that there is ……... evidence that …….dolphins suffer in captivity. Dolphins that are free in ……nature live around 40 years. Captive dolphins live ……….average of 12 years. It is believed that some captive dolphins commit ……..suicide. 7. Look. There’s ……..fly walking on …….ceiling. It’s upside down. Do you suppose …….fly was flying rightside up and flipped over the last second, or was it flying upside down when it landed on …….ceiling? Exercise 3: Fill in the blanks with a/ an/ the COMPUTER BUGS When there (1)____problem with (2)____computer, we often say we have (3) _____ “computer bug.” Of course, it’s not (4) ____ real insect. It refers to (5) ______ technical difficulty we are having. (6) ______expression actually goes back to Thomas Edison, who was (7) ______ famous inventor. When he was working on his first phonograph, he had a lot of problems. He attributed (8) ______ problems to (9) ______ imaginary insect that had 3 hidden inside (10) ______ machine. He is quoted in (11) _____ newspaper as saying there was “(12) _____ bug” in his phonograph. This was in 1889, and it is (13) __ first recorded use of (14) ____ word bug in such (15) _____ context. Exercise 4: Fill in the blanks with many/ much. Also write the plural form of the nouns where necessary. 1. I haven’t visited ………..city in the US. 2. There (isn’t/ aren’t) ……………………money left in my bank account. 3. I haven’t gotten ………………mail lately. 4. I don’t get ………..letter. 5. There (is/ are) too …………...furniture in Anna’s living room. 6. I can’t go with you because I have too ………….work to do. 7. A: How……….side does a pentagon have? B: Five. 8. I couldn’t find ………..information in that with book. 9. I haven’t met ………people since I came here. 10.How …….postage does this letter need? 11.I think there (is/ are) …….too ……..violence on TV. 12.I don’t have ……………patience with incompetence. 13.The doctor has so ………..patience that she has to work at least twelve hours a day. 14.A: How ………tooth does the average person have? B: Thirty-two. 15.There (isn’t/ aren’t) ……………international news in the local

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