Streets, Roads, Squares, Parks

Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary.

1. __ Ford having been excited into a sort of restless life Clark and Sally Carrol rolled and rattled down __ Valley Avenue into __ Jefferson Street, where __ dust road became __ pavement; along opiate Millicent Place, where there were half a dozen prosperous, substantial mansions; and on into the down-town street. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

2. Maddox Arms was a block of apartments on __ Maddox Avenue. (J.H. Chase)

3. He walked over to__ Fifth Avenue, dodging the blind black menace of umbrellas, and standing in front of Delmonico’s hailed an auto-bus. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. I know a dove of a house in__ Talbot Square you could get, furnished. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

5. We’re driving along __Holloway Road when Nicola tells me that she wants to ask my advice. (M. Gayle)

6. Lara walked into a print shop on __ Lake Street. (S. Sheldon)

7. It’s the property on __ Fourteenth Street. (S. Sheldon)

8. The pawnshop was on __ South State Street in the heart of the Loop. (S. Sheldon)

9. The antique four-wheeler, top-heavy with luggage, swung unsteadily round by Tattersall’s and into __ Raphael Street. (G. Galsworthy)

10. He walked slowly up __ Park Side and through __ Piccadilly, picking out as he passed them __French Embassy, __ Hyde Park Corner, __ Apsley House, __ Park Lane and __ Devonshire House. (G. Galsworthy)

11. It connected __Douglas Park with __ Washington or __ South Park.

12. It was __ fine bright day and she made up her mind to walk from __ Hill Street to __ Stanhope Place. (W.S. Maugham)

13. “Got an office up __ Charing Cross Road.” (S. Fry)

14. I was walking westward up __ Strand, and though it was coldish I went slowly to get the pleasure of my cigar. (G. Orwell)

15. When I got down near __ Charing Cross the boys were yelling a later edition of the evening papers. (G. Orwell)

16. __ Ellesmere Road, and the whole quarter surrounding it, until you get to __ High Street, is part of a huge racket called the Hesperides Estate, the property of the Cheerful Credit Building Society. (G. Orwell)

17. He let her on a complicated route through the back streets of __ Whitehall until they emerged onto __ Embankment. (H. Fielding)

18. They crossed __ M40 and she recognized __ Oxford ring road. (H. Fielding)

19. Some quiet morning, when the clerks are streaming across __ London Bridge, and the canary’s singing, and the old woman’s pegging the bloomers on the line – zoom, whiz, plonk! (G. Orwell)

20. I should advise you to have your dress made in London. There is no one down here can do that sort of thing well. __ Voce, in __ Bond Street, is a good place I know. (D. du Maurier)

21. Thirty-eight minutes later, she was on__ Rodeo Drive, lying under a sheet in a white room with six separate jets of very hot steam hissing at her face. (H. Fielding)

22. They were having lunch with Steve Rice at __ Whitehall. (S. Sheldon)

23. James Cameron died on an early morning in spring, and Lara buried him at __ Greenwood Cemetery in the Passiondale area. (S. Sheldon)