Volume 2

Il genitivo sassone Il genitivo sassone (possessive case) viene usato per indicare a chi appartiene una cosa, ma anche per indicare un luogo. In questi casi sottintende i vocaboli shop, house, church, office, restaurant ecc.: Mrs Talbot is at the baker s (shop). I m at Oliver s (house). 9 Indica tra parentesi quali vocaboli sono sottintesi, come nell esempio: Are you at grandmother s? (house) 1. St George s (............................................) is in the centre. 2. Today Kevin is going to Brian s. (............................................) 3. Let s go to Dino s (............................................) for a pizza. 4. Are you going to the chemist s? (............................................) 10 Inserisci nelle frasi il nome del negozio, utilizzando il genitivo sassone, come nell esempio: Let s buy some sugar and some flour at the grocer s. 1. Go to ................................................................... and buy some meat. 2. Lily and Jacob buy some exercise books at ......................................................... over there. 3. Let s go to .................................................................... and buy some flowers for Jessica. 4. Every day my dad buys the newspaper at .............................................................. opposite the station. 5. Every week Grandmother buys fish at ................................................................... in King s Road. 6. Mrs Sullivan buys bread at ................................................................ in Morrison Street. 7. Mr Porter buys medicines at ...................................................................... near his house. 8. I go to ................................................................................. every week and I buy apples and tomatoes. A lot of, much, many A lot of, much, many significano molto/a/i/e e indicano una grande quantità o un gran numero di persone, cose, animali. Nelle frasi affermative si usa solitamente: a lot of (lots of) seguito da un sostantivo There s a lot of traffic. There are a lot of (lots of) apples. Nelle frasi interrogative e negative si usa: much seguito da un sostantivo non numerabile Is there much beer? many seguito da un sostantivo numerabile plurale There aren t many bottles. Ricorda che a lot of/lots of si trasformano in a lot/lots quando non sono seguiti dal sostantivo che viene sottinteso: Are there many cakes? Yes, there are a lot (of cakes). 18 UNIT 2