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1. GRAMATIKE STRUKTURE

1.1. Imenice/ Nouns

1.2. Zamjenice/ Pronouns

1.3. Pridjevi/ Adjectives

1.4. Prilozi/ Adverbs

1.5. lanovi/ Articles

1.6. Brojevi/ Numbers

1.7. Prijedlozi/ Prepositions

1.8. Veznici/ Conjuctions

1.9. Glagoli/ Verbs

1.10. Verb patterns

1.11. Neupravni govor/ Reported speech

1.12. Sintaksa/ Syntax

2. ITANJE S RAZUMIJEVANJEM

3. PISANJE RASPRAVLJAKOG ESEJA

4. SLUANJE

5. ISPITI (DRAVNE MATURE)

1. GRAMATIKE STRUKTURE
 1.1. IMENICE/ NOUNS

NOUNS

PROPER COMMON COLLECTIVE

ABSTRACT CONCRETE

COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE COUNTABLE UNCOUNTABLE

TYPES

There are five types of nouns:

COMMON NOUNS: book, cat, computer, mother, tree

PROPER NOUNS: Croatia, London, Mr. Johnson, Angela, United Nations
CONCRETE NOUNS: cake, clock, perfume, salt, water
ABSTRACT NOUNS: crowd, group, team, flock, herd

GENDER

MASCULINE: boy, man, nephew, husband, tiger

FEMININE: girl, woman, niece, wife, tigress
NEUTER: chair, house, piano, bird, spider

NUMBER: SINGULAR/PLURAL (REGULAR-IRREGULAR)

There are two numbers: singular and plural

Plural is formed:

a. by adding -S to singular nouns: car cars, home homes, minute minutes, student
students, toy toys
b. by adding -ES to nouns ending in -CH, -S, -SH, -X, -O: church churches, bus buses, class
classes, brush brushes, box boxes, tomato - tomatoes
 *words of foreign origin and abbreviated words ending in -O, add only -S: euro euros,
kilo kilos, photo photos, piano pianos, soprano sopranos
c. words ending in a consonant followed by -Y, lose -y and add -IES: baby babies, country
countries, fly flies, lady ladies, party parties, story stories
d. words ending in -F, -FE lose -f, or -fe and add VES: calf calves, half - halves, knife -
knives, leaf leaves, life lives, scarf scarves, wife - wives
*but
chief chiefs, cliff cliffs, roof roofs, safe safes
e. irregular plural: man men, woman women, foot feet, goose geese, tooth teeth, mouse
mice, louse lice, deer deer, fish fish, sheep sheep, aircraft aircraft, child children, person
people

COUNTABLE/UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

COUNTABLE NOUNS:
o most nouns are countable
o they can be counted and can be in singular and plural form
o the indefinite article a/an is used with countable nouns when they are in singular
form
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS:
o nouns that denote substances, concepts and ideas that cannot be divided into
separate elements
o they CANNOT be counted and do not have a plural form
o always used with a singular verb
o the indefinite article a/an CANNOT be used with uncountable nouns

air fruit jam music rubbish toothpaste

advise fun knowledge news sand traffic
applause furniture land oil scenery transport
baggage gin laughter pay shopping travel
bread gold leisure permission sightseeing violence
camping gossip lightening petrol snow water
cash harm litter pollution soap weather
clothing health love progress sugar wine
coffee help luck proof stuff wood
countryside homework luggage rain thunder wool
cream honey machinery research tea
crockery housework milk relief tennis
cutlery housing money rice toast
List of nouns that can be both COUNTABLE and UNCOUNTABLE, but often with change in
meaning:

business iron
democracy light
experience paper
glass room
hair stone
ice time

GENITIVE: S, S, PHRASE OF, DOUBLE GENITIVE

GENITIVE case is used to denote possession; it is also called possessive case. It can be
expresses in three ways:

a. add S to singular nouns and plural nouns that do not end in -s: students book, teachers
name, brothers room, peoples money, womens shoes, childrens games
b. add to plural nouns that end in -s: girls dolls, boys school, babies clothes, ladies room
c. phrase OF: of + noun (used mainly with things): windows of the room, leg of the table,
colour of the car
d. double genitive a combination of the preposition OF and a possessive form (s or
possessive pronoun): a brother of mine, a daughter of Toms, that generosity of his
EXERCISES
1. Write the plural of the following words.
a. cross i. leaf
b. box j. piano
c. boy k. thief
d. city l. smile
e. zoo m. show
f. fax n. knife
g. bear o. roof
h. tool p. potato

2. Fill in the blanks. Use the plural form of the nouns in the list. Use each word once.

calf deer baby child man fish sheep radio knife

a. Baby cows are called ________________.

b. It is dangerous to play with very sharp ________________.
c. Mrs. Ng has three boys and three girls, all in all six _________________.
d. Mr. Winchester is a collector of old __________________. He loves to listen to them.
e. I saw three _____________. Trying to cross the highway. They should be in the woods.
f. ________________ are animals that produce wool. They also give milk.
g. Rob says that he needs three strong ___________ to help him carry the refrigerator.
h. Rosa is a very talented outdoors person. Yesterday, she caught six ____________ in
the river.
i. Fourteen ______________ were born yesterday at Pascack hospital.

3. Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. Write the correct sentences in the
blanks.
a. Womans usually live longer than mens.
b. Farmer Johnson has three sheeps and four deers.
c. There are three zooes in the four citys close to my house.
d. Henriettas beliefes are very conservative.
e. I prefer to live in a countryside. The citys Ive lived in are too crowded.
f. We cut oranges in halfs and then ate it.
g. I dont have a lot of knowledges to compete in this quiz.
h. I am going to buy some apples. How many kiloes do we need?
i. We need to move the furnitures if we want our room to look pretty.
j. Why do you always have to talk about her life? I cant stand gossips.
4. Rewrite these sentences using the Genitive Case. Follow the model.

Susan has a dog. Its white.

Susans dog is white.

a. The children have toys. They are all over the floor.
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b. Fran and Paul have a house. I dont like it.

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c. The students have a new teacher. I need to talk to her.

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d. Your neighbor has a sense of humor. I really appreciate it.

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5. Correct these sentences:

1. My boyfriends the mother is a very nice person.

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2. Where are Charles and Peters car?

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3. I dont know where the kidss bikes are.

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4. They need to respect the poor people rights.

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5. Where does your mothers friends live?

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