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Question
Use a bit of/a piece of/a bunch of/a cloud of/a lump of with the italicised nouns in the following sentences. The first has been done for you as an example.
(i) My teacher gave me some advice. My teacher gave me a bit of advice.
(ii) Can you give me some clay, please. _________________
(iii) The informationyou gave was very useful____________
(iv) Because of these factories, smoke hangs over the city. __________________________
(v) Two stonesrubbed together can produce sparks of fire.
_________________________
(vi) He gave me some flowers on my birthday. _________________________
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Solution
(i) My teacher gave me some advice. My teacher gave me a bit of advice.
(ii) Can you give me some clay, please. Can you give me a lump of clay, please
(iii) The informationyou gave was very useful. The piece of information you gave was very useful.
(iv) Because of these factories, smoke hangs over the city. Because of these factories, a cloud of smoke hangs over the city.
(v) Two stonesrubbed together can produce sparks of fire. Two pieces of stones rubbed together can produce sparks of fire.
(vi) He gave me some flowers on my birthday. He gave me a bunch of flowers on my birthday.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Given below are some nouns, and a set of modifiers (in the box). Combine the nouns and modifiers to make as many appropriate phrases as you can. (Hint: The nouns and modifiers are all from the texts in this book.)
| temple | three girls | triangle | dresses |
| person | thoughts | boys | roar |
| gifts | scream | farewell | expression |
| time | subject | landscape | handkerchief |
| crossing | flight | chatterbox | profession |
| physique | coffee | view | celebration |
| college | rough | hundred | stone | ordinary |
| love | uncomfortable | white | slang | slack |
| bare | railroad | tremendous | family | marriage |
| plump | invigorating | panoramic | heartbreaking | birthday |
| incorrigible | ridiculous | loud | first |
Match the words on the left with a word on the right. Some words on the left can go with more than one word on the right.
| (i) | a portion of | blood |
| (ii) | a pool of | cotton |
| (iii) | flakes of | stones |
| (iv) | a huge heap of | gold |
| (v) | a gust of | fried fish |
| (vi) | little drops of | snow |
| (vii) | a piece of | water |
| (viii) | a pot of | wind |
Pick out the Noun forms of :
(a) represent: ___________________
(b) change: _______________
(c) prepare: _______________
(d) achieve: _______________
(e) aware: _______________
(f) succeed: _______________
Pick out from the lesson the - Noun form of the following word.
dignified - __________.
Pick out from the lesson the - Noun form of the following word.
pursue - ___________.
Pick out from the lesson the - Noun form of the following word.
ignore - ______________.
Pick out from the lesson the - Noun form of the following word.
poor - ___________.
Find from the lesson the noun form of -
combine - ___________
Find from the lesson the noun form of -
solve - __________________.
Find from the lesson the noun form of -
divine - _______________
Find from the lesson the Noun forms of :
happen ____________
Find from the lesson the Noun form of :
simple ____________
Find from the lesson the Noun form of :
conclude ____________
Pick out the NOUN form of
represent ____________
Pick out the NOUN form of
achieve ____________
Pick out the NOUN form of
succeed ____________
Don't you have ______ friends in the school?
Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket for the given portion of a letter:
Dear Sir,
This is with reference to committee’s letter of recommendation that ________ (highlight) the nominations for ‘Safe Residential Area’ award for this current year.
