Fill in the blank with an appropriate plural game.
Do you like to play ____________?
Possible answers: cards, checkers, darts, dominoes.
100
What does peanut butter or jelly come in?
A jar.
100
The debris on the stadium floor included numerous paper cups, ticket stubs, and cigarette butts.
debris means:
a. products
b. paper
c. trash
debris means:
c. trash
100
The store specializes in cutlery, such as forks and knives, that has unique designs.
cutlery means:
a. kithcen items
b. silverware or eating utensils
c. plates or bowls
cutlery means:
silverware or eating utensils
200
I need a glass of juice please.
Please give me a cup made of glass.
Which is "glass" is uncountable & which "glass" is countable?
A glass = countable
Made of glass = uncountable
200
Which word should be plural?
knife - sunglass - razor
Sunglasses
200
What do eggs or cigarettes come in?
A carton.
200
The newlyweds agreed to be very frugal in their shopping because they wanted to save enough money to buy a house.
frugal means:
a. economical
b. wasteful
c. interested
frugal means:
a. economical
200
The constellations "The Big Dipper", "Virgo" and "Hercules" can all be seen during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
constellations mean:
a. Greek gods
b. rock concerts
c. star patterns
constellation means:
c. star patterns
300
Painting is a great way to relax.
Are these paintings by Picasso?
Explain the difference in meaning between the two sentences.
Painting = gerund, uncountable
These paintings = countable
300
Which word should be plural and why?
sleeve - slipper - pant
Pants. Because there are two legs on them.
300
What things do you buy in a box?
Possible answers: cereal, chocolates, matches, tools.
300
Our baseball team's pitcher has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly thirteen warm-up pitches and never wearing socks.
eccentric means:
a. normal
b. strange
c. messy
eccentric means:
b. strange
300
With its four thousand square feet and attached three car garage, the house was mammoth.
mammoth means:
a. very large
b. a type of house
c. a prehistoric animal
mammoth means:
a. very large
400
Make two sentences with fish. Have one be uncountable & one be countable.
Answers vary.
400
What do you use to cut paper?
Scissors.
400
What things do you buy in a bottle?
Possible answers: water, soap, pop, wine, juice.
400
The boy was caught stealing from the store. His larceny caught up with him when the owner showed him a video tape.
Larceny means:
a. theft
b. lawless
c. honor
larceny means:
a. theft
400
Writers who don't read much generally don't know when they are using clichés; they tend to think that expressions such as "eyes like stars," "lips like roses" and "lemon-yellow" daffodils originated with them.
cliche' means:
a. original phrases
b. grammatical errors
c. unoriginal language
cliche' means:
c. unoriginal language
500
Make two sentences with iron. One should use it as an uncountable noun. One should use it as a countable noun.
Answers vary.
500
What do you use to see something very far away?
Binoculars.
500
You are going to the grocery store. You need to buy: kleenex, eggs, tuna and milk.
A box of Kleenex, a carton of eggs, a can of tuna & a bottle/container of milk.
500
Her Christmas bills added up. After the holidays, her extravagance was going to take several months to pay off.
extravagance means:
a. overdoing
b. poverty
c. economy
extravagance means:
a. overdoing
500
In the course of man’s evolution, certain organs have atrophied. The appendix, for example, has wasted away from disuse.
atrophied means:
a. enlarged
b. become weaker
c. become stronger