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9. Meat is good for you. Vegetables are good for you.
10. Sugar isn’t a health food. Coffee isn’t a health food.
III. Grammar Subject­verb agreement
Each sentence below has a singular subject and an article (a or an)
before it. Change the subject to a plural form. Change the verb. You will
not need an article before the plural noun.
1. A pelican is a bird with a big beak.
Pelicans are birds with big beaks.
2. A pelican has strange food habits.
3. A pelican picks up fish in its beak.
4. A pelican takes more food than it eats at one time.
5. A person is different from a pelican.
6. A person has food habits, too.
7. A cabbage is a vegetable.
8. A vegetarian does not eat meat.
9. A habit is an activity that we do all the time.
10. A saying is a group of words with special meaning.
IV. Sentence Construction Noncount nouns
Some nouns are not countable. They are not singular, and they are
not plural, either. They are never used with the singular article a or an,
and they don’t usually take a plural ­s ending. Noncount nouns take a
singular verb. Study these examples:
meat
Vegetarians don’t eat meat. (no article)
One man’s meat is another man’s poison. (singular verb)
Make sentences with the groups of words below. The noncount
noun in each group is underlined.
1. Peter / cook / meat / for hamburgers
Peter cooks meat for hamburgers.
2. People / eat / food
3. Beef / come from / cows
4. Pork / come from / pigs
5. Coffee / come from / South America
6. Tea / come from / China
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