Exercise 48, p. 394

1. Habit is a second nature.

2. The workers of this plant/This plant’s workers work in

a night shift.

3. Our students begin to learn a second language in their second

year at college/university (when they become second-year

students).

4. My house is the third from the right. You surely won’t pass

it by. (You surely won’t miss/overlook it.)

5. Mind you, you won’t have a third chance.

6. My friends and collegues have become a second family

to me.

7. I’m afraid you’ll have to retake the exam (to take the exam

again/for a second time).

8. It’s a big city. Its population is over three million.

9. Out of/Of the two brothers Don is the tallest.

10. The scientist made the first, the second, the third and the

fourth experiment and got the same results.

11.I had a cup of tea, then a second and a third (one) and

only after the fourth (one) realized that I was no longer thirsty

(that I had quelled/slaked my thirst).

12. The children entered the hall in twos.

13. Everyone has lived through a first love/has had a first

love.

14. They met at a first night performance.

15. Three years later they had a second son.

16. At the age of fifty David got a second education.

17. A year passed, then another/then a second one, but still

there was no news.

18. No 8 is the third from the right.