Kitabı oku: «Verbal Relations in English Grammar», sayfa 12

3) Substantivized adjectives denoting people: the helpless, the needy, the poor, the sick, the weary, the rich, etc.

4) Some proper nouns: the East Indies, the West Indies, the Hebrides, the Highlands, the Midlands, the Netherlands, etc.

NB! Remember words having the same singular and plural forms: aircraft, deer, sheep, moose, buff alo, swine, trout, salmon, shrimp, gallows, series, species, of fspring.

It is important to know irregular plural forms of borrowed nouns.

Some of them are presented in the table below.

Table 2

Irregular plural forms of the nouns

INVERSION

The order of words in which the subject is placed after the predicate is called inverted word order or inversion. There is distinguished full inversion (when the predicate precedes the subject, as in Here comes the lady of the house) and partial inversion (when only part of the predicate precedes the subject, as in Happy may you be!).

There are two general cases when the inversion can be found. The first case is due to the peculiarities in the grammatical structure of the sentence and the second case takes place when the emphasis occurs. I. Certain types of sentences requiring the inverted order of words (inversion is obligatory)

1) General questions, polite requests and in tag questions.

The inversion is partial, can be used with a personal pronoun as a subject.

Is it really true?

Won’t you have a cup of tea?

You are glad to see me, aren’t you?