- •«Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет
- •Article Use with Certain Groups of Adjectives
- •Articles with generic reference
- •Article Use with Certain Groups of Nouns Material Nouns
- •Names of Meals
- •Periods of Time
- •Unique Items
- •Institutions in Society
- •Geographical oppositions
- •Parts of the body
- •Colours
- •Directions
- •Diseases
- •Media and Communications
- •Means of Transport
- •Forms of Entertainment
- •Shops and Other Businesses
- •Musical Instruments
- •Special Roles
- •The Use of Articles with Proper Nouns Personal Names
- •Geographical and Place Names
- •Streets, Roads, Squares, Parks
- •Names of Buildings and Institutions
- •Names of Sporting Events and Festivals
- •Names of Organizations
- •Names of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals
- •Names of Political Institutions
- •Articles in the noun group
- •Miscellaneous Use of Articles
- •London Bridge is falling down
- •Tests for self-control Test I
- •Test II
- •Test III
- •Test IV
- •Test VI
- •Test VII
- •Test VIII
- •Test IX
- •Test XI
- •Test XII
- •Test XIII
- •Test XIV
- •Test XV
- •Test XVI
- •Test XVII
- •Test XVIII
- •Test XIX
- •Test XX
- •Answer key Article Use with Countable Concrete and Uncountable Abstract Nouns
- •Article Use with Certain Groups of Adjectives
- •Articles with generic reference
- •Unique Items
- •Institutions in Society
- •Geographical oppositions
- •Parts of the body
- •The Use of Articles with Proper Nouns Personal Names
- •Geographical and Place Names
- •Streets, Roads, Squares, Parks
- •Names of Buildings and Institutions
- •Miscellaneous Use of Articles
- •Contents
- •Редактор л.П. Шахрова
Names of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals
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Names of newspapers published in English tend to have the definite article, including almost all the British national daily newspapers: the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Sun, the Star; the one exception is: Today.
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… the city editor of the Washington Post.
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… in an article in the Times.
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You use a zero article with the names of foreign newspapers: Pravda, Le Monde, Der Spiegel.
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...a long and thoughtful article in Le Monde.
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Names of periodicals such as magazines and journals have either the definite article or a zero article: Punch, Newsweek, ELT Journal, the Journal of American Psychology, the Spectator.
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...a collection of tales which previously appeared in Punch.
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...a cartoon in the Spectator.
Exercise 1. In the sentences below, only one of the underlined alternatives is appropriate. Cross out the one that is wrong.
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Newsweek/ The Newsweek appears, not surprisingly, every week.
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Is Pravda/ the Pravda a daily or a weekly newspaper?
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The article was published in Spectator/ the Spectator.
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British newspapers are usually divided into popular papers, like Today/ the Today and Sun/ the Sun, and quality papers, like Guardian/ the Guardian.
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Times/ The Times is a daily newspaper.
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One of them was reading Mail/ the Mail and the other was reading Express/ the Express. (G. Orwell)
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Have you got a Guardian/ the Guardian that I could borrow?
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I was reading a piece in News Chronicle/ the News Chronicle the other day where it said that bombing planes can’t do any damage nowadays. (G. Orwell)
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Dick was in his own room in the hotel reading New York Herald/ the New York Herald when the swallow-like nun rushed in – simultaneously the phone rang. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
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It is written in Koran/ the Koran. (H. Fielding)
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It appeared in New York Times/ the New York Times.
Names of Political Institutions
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The names of most political or government bodies and institutions have the definite article: the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Department of Trade and Industry, the State Department, the Cabinet.
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It was defeated in the House of Commons on 13 December.
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Look at the percentage of lawyers in the Senate.
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This is true also of foreign institutions, translated or not: the Bundestag, the Dail, the Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of the Interior, and so on.
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...at a special meeting of the Bundestag.
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...regular briefings by the Interior Ministry and the Foreign Ministry.
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Exceptions to this are: Parliament (but the Houses of Parliament), Congress, and names of councils: Kent County Council, Leeds City Council.
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...when I was elected to Parliament in 1964.
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He attended Congress only nine times.
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Names of locations and buildings that are used to refer metonymically to political institutions stay as they are: Whitehall, Westminster, Downing Street, Washington, the Kremlin.
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But the final decision may be made in the Kremlin.
Exercise 1. In the sentences below, only one of the underlined alternatives is appropriate. Cross out the one that is wrong.
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Whitehall/ The Whitehall has denied any knowledge of the affair.
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The proposal was rejected by Finance Ministry/ the Finance Ministry.
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House of Lords/ The House of Lords will vote on the bill tomorrow.
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Kremlin/ The Kremlin has so far made no response to the protest.
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… the state opening of Parliament/ the Parliament by the Queen.
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He was one of the youngest to be elected to Senate/ the Senate.
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There was also a secretary from American Embassy/ the American Embassy. (W.S. Maugham)
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Consulate/ The Consulate handles these things. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
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“This is nineteen-seventy-nine, Gary, people like you are forming Thatcher Cabinet/ the Thatcher cabinet.” (S. Fry)
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“Adrian, I want you to deliver this note to British Consulate/ the British Consulate,” said Trefusis. (S. Fry)
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As they powered upstream, Big Ben/ the Big Ben and Houses of Parliament/ the Houses of Parliament were silhouetted against the moonlit sky. (H. Fielding)
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President Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, and Gerald Ford stepped into White House/ the White House. (S. Sheldon)