CLOTH, CLOTHS, CLOTHES
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Read and translate the following sentences paying special attention to the words in bold type. 1. «Why don’t you put on some of Julius’s clothes?» «That’s just the joke! He locked the bedroom door. And there isn’t a cloth in the whole of the rest of the flat, except this dish clout which I’ve twined about me.» Morgan twitched the cloth off her and cast it away. 2. His bags of samples and the long bolts of cloth were in the back of his small shooting brake. 3. Cradling it in a cloth like a mother taking her baby to its cot, he put the dish back in the oven until Daniel returned. 4. She took her brushes and cloths into the bedroom. 5. «Nellie,» said Aunt Florence, «fetch a cloth. Mr Geoffrey has made a mess «‘.6. Some clothes were red, some were blue, some smart, some dowdy. 7. His clothes were wet with perspiration. 8. Lyman twisted his cuffs into sight with an impatient, nervous movement of his wrists, glancing a second time at his brother’s pink face, forward curling yellow hair and clothes of a country cut. 9. He invariably wore black serge clothes. 10. Dickie’s clothes felt clean and light. 11. He unpacked his clothes. 2. With my clothes in a Gladstone bag and twenty pounds in my pocket I set out. 13. He was young enough to carry off his faultless clothes with a dash.14. She knew how to wear her clothes. EXPLANATORY NOTES Cloth n. 1. (sing.) Material made by weaving (wool, silk, cotton, linen, etc.) (ткань, тканый материал; сукно, полотно, шелковая, бумажная ткань, холст и т.д.); (pl.) cloths in the sense «kinds of cloth» (сорта сукон, материй). 2. (sing.) A piece of this material for special purposes (кусок материи, тряпка; скатерть), e.g. a floor; a dish ~; (pi.) cloths in the sense «pieces of cloth” Clothes n. pi. (the original pl. of cloth, now not identified with the sing.; not used with numerals) 1. Wearing apparel, dress, garments; articles usually of cloth, designed to cover or protect the body (одежда, платье). 2. Bed clothes (постельное белье). Remember that the noun clothes always requires the use of a verb in the plural, e.g. His clothes were well cut. It stands to reason that the indefinite article or the pronouns this, that are never used with this noun.
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