Ступені порівняння прислівників та прикметників degrees of comparison of adverbs and adjectives The positive degree – the comparative degree – the superlative degree

Synthetic forms dark – darker – darkest hot – hotter – hottest clever – cleverer – cleverest simple – simpler – simplest narrow – narrower – narrowest heavy – heavier – heaviest po`lite – po`liter – po`litest good – better – best well bad – worse – worst badly old – older – oldest elder – eldest far – farther – farthest further – furthest little – less – least many – more – most much

Analytical forms `famous – more/less `famous – most/least `famous quietly – more/less quietly – most/least quietly But: early – earlier – earliest 3. difficult – more/less difficult – most/least difficult

Множина іменників the plural of nouns

	a book + -s – books a table + -s – tables
	a book + -s – books a table + -s – tables
	a class + -es – classes a box + -es – boxes a dish + -es – dishes a match + -es – matches
	a family + -es – families a day + -s – days
	a tomato + -es – tomatoes But: photos, pianos, kilos, kimonos, solos, sopranos, dinamos
	a wife + -s – wives a shelf + -es – shelves But: chiefs, handkerchiefs, roofs, proofs, safes
	a man – men a woman – women a foot – feet a tooth – teeth a goose – geese a mouse – mice a louse – lice a child – children an ox – oxen a person – people
	a datum – data a phenomenon – phenomena a basis – bases a nucleus – nuclei a formula – formulae
	a boy-friend – boy-friends a man-of-war – men-of-war a son-in-law – sons-in-law a passer-by – passers-by a forget-me-not – forget-me-nots
	sheep, deer, fish, swine, fruit, hair
	news, wages, contents; billiards, dominoes, darts etc.
	pants, pyjamas, trousers, glasses, spectacles, scissors etc.
	clothes, goods, stairs, savings, arms, surroundings etc.

Числівник numerals

Cardinal numerals (кількісні числівники)

• Simple (прості) 1-12; 100; 1,000; 1,000,000

• Derived (похідні)

1) 13-19 – -teen

Roots changed: three – `thir`teen; five – `fif`teen

2) tens – -ty

Roots changed: two – `twenty; three – `thirty; four – `forty; five – `fifty

• Composite (складені)

235 – two hundred and thirty-five

4,007 – four thousand and seven

1,694 – a (one) thousand six hundred and ninety-four

7,581,462 – seven million five hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-two

Years

1800 – eighteen hundred

1675 – sixteen seventy-five

1905 – nineteen hundred and five (nineteen five)

Telephone numbers

8 0512 39 77 46 – eight, O [ou]/zero five one two, three nine, double seven, four six

Other cases

Page twenty Chapter five

Part two Room three

Act one Size forty-two

Ordinal numerals (порядкові числівники) – th

• Simple

  • first, second, third

  • – th

Roots changed: five – fifth, twelve – twelfth, nine – ninth

• Derived

Sixty – sixtieth

• Composite

Three hundred and sixty-fourth

Dates

17/9/1995 – the seventeenth of September nineteen ninety-five / September the seventeenth nineteen ninety-five

Fractions (прості дробі)

Numerator – cardinal

Denominator – ordinal

1/7 – one seventh 3/7 – tree sevenths

½ – a half (one half) ¼ – a quarter (one quarter)

1 ¾ – one and three quarters 3 4/5 – three and four fifths

Decimals (десяткові дробі)

35.204 – three five point two nought four

0.71 – (nought) point seven one

0
[ou] – telephone numbers years account numbers	nought [no:t](Br.) / zero [`zierou] – decimals	[nil] – football	[lΛv] – tennis