[英语语法] 名词的数

例：daughter-in-law→daughters-in-law 媳妇; father-in-law→fathers-in-law岳父　　

但是，也有些合成名词，特别是由man和woman构成的合成名词，里面所含的成分，全都要变为复数，如：

五、有些名词经常是带着-s词尾的，但通常都作单数看待，如：

Phonetics（语音学），physics（物理学），optics（光学），politics（政治），news（新闻）等。

例：bellows风箱; clothes; police; shorts短裤; scissors剪刀; spectacles眼镜; shears大剪刀，trousers长裤，wages工资，belongings所有物， surroundings环境，savings储蓄，findings调查结果，arms武器，clothes衣服，stairs楼梯，等

例：goods货物，waters水域，fishes（各种）鱼，papers文件，证件，greens青菜，manners礼貌，ruins废墟，troops军队，looks外貌，times时代，等

第三部分：不可数名词的计量方法

（1）一般用“数字+of+计量单位+名词”表示，（注意：当数字大于一时，表示计量单位的名词可以有复数形式）。如：

a piece of news 一则新闻 a piece of meat 一块肉 a glass of wine一杯酒 two bowls of rice 两碗米 a sum of money 一笔钱 five bags of flour 一袋面粉 a drop of water 一滴水 three bottles of milk 三瓶牛奶 two pieces of advice 两条建议

（2）用much/some/ a little/ little/ a lot of/ plenty of+不可数名词

练习题：

1、 All the people at the conference are ______.

a. mathematic teachers c. mathematics teacher

b. mathematics teachers d. mathematic’s teachers (C)

2、All the ______ in the hospital got a rise last month.

a. women doctors c. woman doctors

b. women doctor d. woman doctor (a)

3、---Are there any ________ on the farm?

---Yes, there are some.

A. horse B. duck C. chicken D. sheep (D)

4、--- They are thirsty. Will you please give them ______ ?

　 --- Certainly.

　A. some bottles of waters B. some bottles of water

　C. some bottle of water D. some bottle of waters (B)

5、Mike hurt one of his ______ in the accident yesterday.

　A. tooth B. feet C. hand D. ear (B)

6、There is some _______ on the plate.

　A. cakes B. meat C. potato D. pears (B)

7、The little baby has two _______ already.

　A. tooth B. tooths C. teeth D. teeths (C)

8、We need some more____. Can you go and get some, please?

A. potato B. potatos C. potatoes D. potatoe (C)

9、Please remember to give the horse some tree___.

A. leafs B. leaves C. leaf D. leave (B)

10、He gave us____ on how to keep fit.

A. some advices B. some advice C. an advice D. a advice (B)

11、Please pass me _____.

A. two glass of water B. two glasses of waters

C. two glasses of water D. two glass water (C)

12、There are a lot of _______ down there but hardly any _______.

A. sheeps, people B.sheep, people C. sheeps, peoples D. sheep, peoples (B)

13、This table is made of __________.

A. many glass B. glasses C. some glasses D. glass (D)

14、______ can get a better view of the game than the participants.

A. Looker-on B. Lookers-on C. Looker-ons D. Lookers-ons (B)

15、Some ______ are flying kites near the river.

A. child B. boy C. boys D. childs (C)

16、Mr. Smith always has ________ to tell us.

A. some good pieces of news B. some pieces of good news

C. some good piece of news D. some piece of good news (B)

17、Twelve _______ were hurt, but no _________ were lost in that accident.

A. person; life B. people; lives C. peoples; lives D. persons; life (B)

18、In the view of the foreign experts, there wasn’t ____ oil here.

A. much B. lots of C. a great deal of D. many (A)

19、The police investigated those _____ about the accident.

A. stander-by C. standers-by

B. stander-bys D. standers-bys (B)

20、Generally there are ______ television programs for children on Saturday.

A. little B. much C. a large number of D. a large amount of (C