1)Complete the sentences in two ways using your own words.Use too or enough
1.I can't eat this food;it's too salty/it's not warm enough.
2.I can't carry these suitcases by myself;
3.I'll never be able to buy my own yacht;
4.She won't pass the exam.
2) a.Match the partitives on the left with the uncountable nouns you could use them with.Then make sentences.
a piece of salt
a sun of advice
a tablespoon of money
a clap of rain
a jar of sunshine
a drop of thunder
a ray of honey
Let ne give you a piece of advice:don't lend him the money, because he won't return it.
b.Consulting a dictionary,say what the difference between the words in each pair is,then make sentences illustrating the difference.
1)hair/hairs
2)work/works
3)damage/damages
4)people/peoples
5)wood/woods
6)content/contents
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2. I can't carry these suitcases by myself; they are too heavy/ they are not closed enough
3. I'll never be able to buy my own yacht; It is too expensive; it’s not cheap enough
4.She won't pass the exam; she studied too little/ she didn’t study enough
a) a sum of money
You need a big sum of money to buy a house.
a tablespoon of salt
You need to add a tablespoon of salt to the food.
a clap of thunder
I thought that last clap of thunder might wake you.
a jar of honey
My mother bought me a jar of honey.
a drop of rain
The storm passed without a single drop of rain.
a ray of sunshine
Might be a ray of sunshine there.
b)hair - substantiv colectiv, par.
I like her hair.
hairs- fire de par
I found three hairs in my food.
Work- munca, uncountable
We have a lot of work
Works- constructii (proiect de constructii)
There are traffic jams all over the city due to the road works in the centre
Damage- loss or injury to a person or property
The cost of the damage was estimated at USD 18 billion.
Damages- money claimed by, or ordered to be paid to, a person as compensation for loss or injury
The Claimant wishes to sue Acme for damages as a result of a loss sustained by the Claimant after Acme’s failure to perform its obligations.
People- is the correct word to choose as a plural for person
There were a lot of people.
Peoples- only necessary when you refer to distinct ethnic groups
The Israeli and Palestinian peoples have long been at war.
Wood - porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
This table is made of wood.
Woods- A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
"Woods are lovely, dark places."
Content- means the ideas that are contained in a piece of writing or a film or a speech
His speech was very flowery, but it lacked content and was quite superficial.
Contents- list of chapters or articles or parts that are in the book, with the number of the page they begin on.
If you look at the contents, you’ll see there’s a chapter on Japanese folk music.