Unit 7 GRAMMAR

Question 1

Nouns That Are Followed By a Singular Verb

Answer 1

society
subjects
titles of books
names of stores Games (dominoes, darts)
Series, species

Question 2

Nouns that are followed by a plural verb

Answer 2

Media, Criteria, Phenomena
The police
Adjectives used with THE to express a whole group (The chinese)

Question 3

Nouns that can be followed by a singular o plural verb

Answer 3

audience/class
company
data
government
group
places that are plural (crossroads, headquarters, The United states)

Question 4

Complex noun phrases

Answer 4

In complex noun phrases, the verb agrees with the main subject (often the first noun)

Question 5

Nouns that refer to quantity

Answer 5

In noun phrases expression quantity, the verb agrees with the main noun
- Percentages
- Fractions
- The majority

Question 6

Quantifiers That are followed by singular countable nouns

Answer 6

each
every
neither
the whole
Example: Neither opcion sound very good to me

Question 7

Quantifiers That are followed by plural countable nouns

Answer 7

A couple of
countless, several
both
none of
all the
upwards of
Example: The marathon normally attracts upwards of 10.000 spectators

Question 8

Quantifiers that are followed by uncountable nouns

Answer 8

bags of
a great deal of
Example: We´ve got bags of time before the match starts

Question 9

Quantifiers that are followed by uncountable nouns or plural countable nouns

Answer 9

No end of
Tons of
Heaps of
An awful lot of
Example: There are an awful lot of problems to fix