EngQuizzitive-Cet2 (grammar) : Answers

Aspects of nouns

Aspect is a characteristic of a particular part of speech which enables it to relate to other parts of speech.There are 8 parts of speech in English grammar.These are as follows :
Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adverb
Adjective
Conjunction
Preposition
Interjection

A noun has three aspects :

• Number : nouns can be singular or plural
• Gender : there are four types of gender : Masculine,Feminine,Neuter and Common
• Case : Nominative (when a noun is used as a subject in a sentence),Accusative (when a noun is used as an object in a sentence) and a possessive case

This quiz was based on the number aspect related to common nouns. For details on the same and another quiz on the number aspect of the common noun check the following link : http://engquizzitive.blogspot.com/2010/06/grammar-quiz-usage-of-common-nouns_20.html

Answers

1. Please get me a few pieces of chalk from the staff room. [chalk is an uncountable noun and hence cannot take a plural]
2. Please don't spend any more money on new furniture.[furniture being a collective noun is used in a singular sense]
3. I saw as many as 25 aircraft take off and land.
4. Add two spoonfuls of sugar to the mixture.[spoonful is considered to be one word and hence the plural is spoonfuls]
5. She went to the woods to fetch wood for the fire.[the plural of the word wood to woods changes the meaning of the word.Wood refers to the material while woods refers to forest]

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