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Nouns, agreement and articles 5

Grammar exercises

EU Choose the correct phrase.
1
I don't like tomatoes, so! left them at the side of the plate / the plate's side.
2
It was the decision of Adam / Adam's decision to take out the loan, so he has to take responsibility for
repaying it.
3
I saw two great TV programmes last week. The first was an action film / a film about action, and the second
a documentary about young entrepreneurs / a young entrepreneurs documentary.
4
John is someone I worked with in Malaysia's brother / the brother of someone worked with in Malaysia.
5
He apologised without the hesitation of a moment / a moment's hesitation.
6 My house is by a children playground / a children's playground, so it can be quite noisy.
7
The construction of the new library / The new library's construction took so long that building costs were ten
times higher than first expected.
8 When I got home I found that an envelope had been pushed through my letters box / letter box. In it was
a congratulations card/ a congratulation card from Aunt Alice.

Nazim has been accepted on the Environmental Science course (see 1.1). Read this email he sent to a
friend during a field trip. Fill in the gaps with a present tense form of the verbs in brackets.

Hi Cathy,
Greetings from Nepal! I'm sending this from an internet café in a small town north of
Kathmandu.
are
The town itself isn't very interesting, but the surroundings (1)
(be) beautiful —
I can see the Himalayas through the café windowl
The lectures here are brilliant. The Politics and Ecology courses are great, but Economics
(2) (be) certainly not
(be) really difficult — although maths (3)
my strong point! I'm really learning a lot about the country and its environmental problems.
A lot of Nepal's population (4)
(live) in the mountainous parts of the country
south of the Himalayas, and the majority of these people (5)
(depend) on
growing crops and keeping animals. The standard of Hying in Kathmandu and the other cities
(have)
(6) risen a lot recently, and the number of people likely to move into the
cities (7)
(be) expected to increase. It's a real problem here. The Himalayan
Times, the local English-language newspaper (9)
(have) just published a
survey showing that most young people would stay in their home villages if jobs were available.
I was planning on coming home at the end of June, but the college (9)
(have)
arranged for a few of us to stay during the summer on a VVWF conservation project in a region
in the north called Helambu — there (10)
(be) just a few kilometres between
the village where I'll be working and the border with China. Among the various projects that
have been set up (11)
(be) a scheme for producing biogas locally — that's gas
produced from plant and animal waste. All my living expenses (12)
(be) being
paid for by the VVWE
Hope all is well with you. I'll send more news when I can.
Nazim
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