Exercise 5. Explain the use of the genitive case.

Snow, sandstone, impossibility, widower, opinion, exclamation, passer-by, misunderstanding, inactivity, snowball, kingdom, anti-cyclone, mother-of-pearl, immobility, might, warmth, succession, ex-president, nurse, misdeed, wisdom, blackbird, attention, policeman, merry-go-round, girlhood, usefulness, fortune, friendship, statesman, brother-in-law, population, fellow-boarder, smelling-salt.

Exercise 2.Point out the nouns and define the class each belongs to.

1. Don't forget, Pettinger, Europe is still the heart of the world, and Germany the heart of Europe. (Heym) 2. Pursuing his inquiries, Clennam found that the Gowan family were a very dis­tant ramification of the Barnacles... (Dickens) 3. His face was sick with pain and rage. (Maltz) 4. He drank coffee, letting the warmth go through his cold, tired body. (This is America) 5. But there is only one place I met with the brotherhood of man, and it was in the Communist Party. (This is America) 6. The myster­ies of storm and the rain and tide were revealed. (Galsworthy) 7. Having set the tea, she stood by the table and said slowly: "Tea's ready, Father. I'm going to London. " (Galsworthy) 8. By this time, quite a small crowd had collected, and people were asking each other what was the matter. (Jerome K. Jerome) 9. There were several small losses: a spoon used for the baby's feeding, a pair of scissors. (Lessing) 10. He was professor of physics.(London) 11. A band of dark clouds lay across the sky, and underneath it was the last pale brilliance of the evening.(Murdoch) 12. "I have some luggage, " he said, "at the Brumblehurst Station, " and he asked her how he could have it.(Wells) 13. In the kitchen Bowen read the telegram aloud.(Amis) 14. The crowd laughed and moved, pushing every way and everybody.(This is America) 15. De Witt fished through his pockets, found his eyeglasses, carefully slipped them out of their case... (Heym) 16. A stone caught her heel. (Maltz) 17. George suggested meat and fruit pies, cold meat, to­matoes, fruit and green stuff. (Jerome K. Jerome) 18. The silver-coloured carpet felt wonderfully soft beneath his feet, the furni­ture was of a golden wood. (Galsworthy) 19. The major seemed to be looking out at the sky... (Heym) 20. Winslow spoke with his usual caustic courtesy. (Snow) 21. The bourgeoisie is cowardly. (London) 22. The moon was shining through the tree stems when they sat again side by side on the log seat. (Galsworthy) 23. "It's not Sunday, tomorrow, " said Karg. (Heym) 24. He looked down at his audience. (Heym) 25. His hair was grey and he was short and fat. (Hemingway)

Exercise 3. Give the plural of the following nouns.

Face, portfolio, swine, house, tomato, hearth, mother-in-law, basis, clergyman, ox, cry, key, fox, downfall, looker-on, rock, bush, enemy, leaf, roof, genius, hero, bunch, sheep, ship, criterion, youth, journey, penknife, man-of-war, loss, datum, goose, deer, pie, Englishwoman, wolf, mouse, formula, bath, volcano, possibility, forget-me-not, foot, handkerchief, thief, crisis, stepdaughter, birth, echo, finger-tip, court martial, joy, mischief-maker, extremity, spy, lie.

Exercise 4. Use the appropriate form of the verb.

1. "There ____ money in my pocket," I said to the porter. (is, are) (Hemingway) 2. I know my hair ____ beautiful, everybody says so. (is, are) (Hardy) 3. The works ____ his country, his home, his reason for being. (was, were) (Heym) 4. These white swine ____ not live. (does, do) (Sabatini) 5. Means ____ easily found. (was, were) (Thackeray) 6....this watch ____ a special favourite with Mr. Pick­ wick, having been carried about... for a greater number of years than we feel called upon to state, at present. (was, were) (Dickens) 7. "Good," I said. "No one shall tell me again that fish ____ no sense with them." (has, have) (Llewellyn) 8. The deer ____ ravaging the man's fields. (was, were) (Twain) 9. Money ____ so scarce that it could fairly be said not to exist at all. (was, were) (Dreiser) 10. I was here before the gates ____ opened, but I was afraid to come straight to you. (was, were) (Dickens) 11. The papers ____ dull, the news ____ local and stale, and the war news ___ all old. (was, were) (Hemingway) 12. At Capracotta, he had told me, there ____ trout in the stream below the town. (was, were) (Hemingway) 13. The sugar-tongs ____ too wide for one of her hands, and she had to use both in wielding them. (was, were) (Ch. Bronte) 14. Her hair ____ loose and half-falling, and she wore a nurse's dress. (was, were) (Hemingway) 15. And the baggage ____ apparatus and appliances. (contain, contains) (Wells) 16. The china ____ good, of a delicate pattern. (was, were) (Dreiser) 17. The nurse's wages ____ good... (was, were) (Collins)

Exercise 5. Explain the use of the genitive case.

1. For four months, since in the canteen she saw Jon's tired smile, he had been one long thought in her mind. (Galsworthy) 2. Agnes was at her wit's-end. (Lindsay) 3. Since his illness, how­ever, he had reluctantly abandoned this attempt to get twenty-four hours' work out of each day. (Murdoch) 4....the Radicals' real supporters were the urban classes. (Galsworthy) 5. To Eliz­abeth it seemed that the lines with which fear had falsely aged his face were smoothed away, and it was a boy's face which watched her with a boy's enthusiasm. (Greene) 6. For his honor's sake Tom has got to commit suicide. (Saroyan) 7. They were to leave the house without an instant's delay and go at once to the river's edge and go aboard a steamer that would be waiting there for them. (Buck) 8. And he lifted his strange lowering eyes to Derek's. (Galsworthy) 9. I was encouraged when, after Roger had proposed the guest of honor's health, Lufkin got up to reply. (Snow) 10. "Where are the children?" "I sent them to mother's." (Cronin) 11. Philip heard a man's voice talking quickly, but soothingly, over the phone. (/. Shaw) 12. Presently Rex was on his two miles' walk to Offendene. (Eliot) 13. That early morning he had already done a good two hours' work. (Galsworthy) 14. Bowen sat on the veranda of Buckmaster's house. (Amis) 15. Crime is the product of a country's social order. (Cronin) 16. I spotted the bride's father's uncle's silk hat on the seat of a straight chair across the room. (Salinger) 17. I spent Christmas at my aunt Emily's. (Braine) 18. We took some bread and cheese with us and got some goat's milk up there on the pasture. (Voynich) 19. He was still thinking of next morn­ing's papers. (Snow) 20. Why, for God's sake, why must we go through all this hell? (Samoan) 21. A man stepped out from a tobacconist's and waved to them, and the car slid to the kerb and stopped. (Greene) 22. A woman's love is not worth anything until it has been cleaned of all romanticism. (Murdoch) 23. Her skin was as dry as a child's with fever. (Greene)

Exercise 6. Put the noun in the genitive case. Explain the use of the gen­itive case.

1. Well, I'd rather be married to a saint that never saw my good looks than to a sinner who saw every other ____. (woman) (Buck) 2. The breakfast table at ____ was usually a very pleasant

one, and was always presided over by Bella. (Mr. Boffin)(Dickens) 3. "I think ____ friendships are much deeper than ____," Mrs. Thomp­son said. (men, women) (Braine) 4. That night he had chosen a basement bar a ____ throw from Scotland Yard... (stone) (Hansford Johnson) 5. As he passed through the ____ room he saw an evening paper spread out conspicuously on the desk of the ____ nephew. (clerks, director) (Greene) 6 But I suppose that need not prevent us from quarrelling to our ____ content in future. (heart) (Voynich) 7. With one cold glance could she send me back into childhood with" all a lonely____ terrors and shames. (child) (Lindsay) 8. I will even go farther, if you like, and admit, for ____ sake and for ____ sake, that the identity of Lady Glyde, as a living person, is a proved fact to Miss Halcombe and yourself.-(courtesy, argument) (Collins) 9. He stopped to dinner that evening and much to ____ satisfaction made" a favorable impression on her father. (Ruth) (London) 10. He said to her: "Look at my brother ____ property." (James) (Galsworthy) 11. He had not been at ____ for nearly two years. (Timothy) (Galsworthy) 12. Benson... was listening among the ____ representatives cocking his head on one side. (workers) (Lind­ say) 13. He had never thought that a mere ____ hand could be sweetly soft. (woman) (London) 14. But he was daunted the next moment by his own and ____ insignificance. (Milly) (Greene) 15. But by that time the bride was near the end of the first ____ journey towards Florence. (day) (Dickens) 16....he too wished she had remained at home, as did most of the ____ families. (congressmen) (Stone) 17. You need a good ____ sleep. (night) (Shaw) 18. Haven't you noticed that other ____ bread-and-butter is always much nicer than your own? Robert is like that. He always prefers ____ fireside. (people, some­ body else) (Maugham) 19. The ____ wives were more expensively dressed than the Civil ____, and in general more spectacular. (poli­ticians, servants) (Snow) 20. One evening, on the way to the ____, I saw Irwing sitting on the steps of his house. (grocer) (Saroyan) 21. I cannot be blamed for all my ____ doings. (kin) (Lindsay)