Articles with generic reference

Ex. 1.

1. generic, generic. 2. generic. 3. particular. 4. generic. 5. particular. 6. generic. 7. generic. 8. particular. 9. generic 10. particular.

Ex. 2.

1. the heart. 2. the bedroom; the living-room. 3. the child. 4. the doctor. 5. the telephone. 6. the reader. 7. the classroom; the teacher; the student/ the learner/ the pupil. 8. the reader’s; the sentence.

Ex. 3.

1. the gorilla. 2. the shark. 3. the octopus. 4. the hippo(potamus) 5. the leopard. 6. the ladybird. 7. the butterfly. 8. the ox. 9. the goose. 10. the centipede. 11. the buffalo. 12. the chameleon. 13. the yak. 14. the koala bear. 15. the albatross.

Ex. 4.

1. the. 2. a. 3. the. 4. the. 5. a, a. 6. a. 7. the. 8. a. 9. the, the. 10. the. 11. an, an. 12. the.

Ex. 5.

1. cars. 2. a seagull/ seagulls. 3. the heart. 4. a/the writer. 5. the wheel. 6. a tortoise. 7. whales/ the whale. 8. a chair. 9. cars, buses, cities. 10. the tiger/ tigers.

Ex. 6.

1. x. 2. a. 3. a. 4. a, x. 5. x, x. 6. a, a, x, x, x, x. 7. x, x, x. 8. a. 9. a, a. 10. x, x. 11. a. 12. a. 13. x. 14. a, a. 15. a. 16. the. 17. a, a. 18. a. 19. a. 20. a. 21. the. 22. a. 23. a. 24. a. 25. a. 26. a. 27. a, a. 28. a. 29. a. 30. a. 31. x. 32. a. 33. a. 34. a. 35. a. 36. a. 37. a, a. 38. a. 39. a. 40. x, x.

Ex. 7.

1. the, the, the. 2. the. 3. the, the. 4. the, the. 5. a, an. 6. the, the. 7. an. 8. the. 9. an. 10. an. 11. the, x. 12. the, x, x. 13. the. 14. a. 15. a. 16. the. 17. a, a. 18. the, the. 19. a. 20. the, the, the.

Ex. 8.

1.the. 2. the, the. 3. the. 4. the. 5. the. 6. the, the. 7. a. 8. a. 9. the. 10. an. 11. a. 12. a. 13. the, the. 14. the. 15. the.

Ex. 9.

1. In this business you have to take the rough with the smooth. You are the best actress in England. (W.S. Maugham)

2. Fiercely she bit down hard on her bottom lip. She wasn’t being vindictive, she was simply exercising her right to have justice, avenging the wrong which had been done to her, and neither were her motives totally selfish. (P. Jordan)

3. It was almost inevitable that the inevitable should happen. (W.S. Maugham)

4. He got a good deal of satisfaction out of letting his sister see with her own eyes how familiar he was with the illustrious and fashionable. (W.S. Maugham)

5. I drifted to the border-line of the unconscious and slipped over it at last. (D. du Maurier)

6. Amory was far from being contented. He missed the place he had won at St. Regis’s, the being known and admired, yet Princeton stimulated him… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. All diamonds look big in the rough. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. I hate the dark. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. She had a mature distrust of the trivial, the facile and the vulgar. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. Rosemary accepted it as merely a new facet of the fabulous, which for two years had filled her life. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. The unknown yielded her up. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. Lanier, not sure what had happened, but suspecting the dark and unprecedented, asked… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. She could go outside, into the unknown, and try to escape from Rhys, or she could stay here and try to fight him. (S. Sheldon)

14. A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. You do not strike me as the kind of woman who seeks out the predictable. (H. Fielding)

Ex. 10.

1. good. 2. poor. 3. the. 4. visually. 5. hard. 6. deaf. 7. impossible. 8. extreme. 9. bald. 10. old.

Article Use with Certain Groups of Nouns

Material Nouns

Ex. 1.

1. x. 2.the, a. 3. the, the. 4. a. 5. a, a. 6. a. 7. a, a, a. 8. a. 9. the. 10. a. 11. a. 12. x. 13. the. 14. a. 15. a. 16. the, a, the, the. 17. the. 18. a. 19. the. 20. a. 21. the. 22. x. 23. x. 24. the. 25. x. 26. a, a. 27. x. 28. x. 29. x. 30. x.

Names of Meals

Ex. 1.

1. a. 2. x. 3. the. 4. x. 5. the. 6. a. 7. the. 8. a. 9. a, x, an. 10. a. 11. the, x. 12. x. 13. the. 14. a. 15. x. 16. a. 17. x. 18. the. 19. x. 20. an. 21. the. 22. an. 23. x. 24. the. 25. a. 26. a. 27. x. 28.a. 29. a, x. 30. a. 31. a. 32. x. 33. a. 34. a. 35. x. 36. a. 37. a. 38. x. 39. a. 40. a.

Periods of Time

Ex. 1.

1. a. 2. x, x. 3. the. 4. the. 5. x. 6. a. 7. a, the, x. 8. the, x. 9. x, x. 10. a, the. 11. a, the. 12. x. 13. a. 14. x. 15. the. 16. x. 17. x. 18. x. 19. x. 20. the. 21. x, the. 22. x, the, the, x. 23. a. 24. the. 25. a. 26. x, x. 27. a. 28. an. 29. a. 30. the. 31. the, x. 32. x. 33. the. 34. x. 35. the. 36. x. 37. the. 38. x. 39. x. 40. the. 41. x. 42. x. 43. an. 44. x. 45. the. 46. x. 47. x. 48. the. 49. a. 50. x. 51. the. 52. x. 53. a. 54. the. 55. x. 56. the. 57. x. 58. the. 59. a. 60. x.

Ex. 2. Correct answers

1. a Sunday. 2. the Middle Ages. 3. a rainy north London Tuesday. 4. the Bronze Age. 5. a Saturday. 6. a Tuesday. 7. a Sunday. 8. a Sunday. 9. the Tuesday. 10. the following Tuesday. 11. the June. 12. Tuesday. 13. the eighties.

Ex. 3.

1. the. 2. the. 3. the, x. 4. the/x, a. 5. the. 6. the, the, the, the, the. 7. the, a, the, an. 8. x. 9. a. 10. x. 11. the. 12. the. 13. the. 14. the. 15. the. 16. x. 17. a. 18. the. 19. x, x. 20. the. 21. x, x. 22. x. 23. the, a, the. 24. the. 25. the. 26. the. 27. the. 28. the. 29. x. 30. x.

Ex. 4.

1. the, the, the, the, the, the. 2. a, a. 3. x, a. 4. the. 5. a. 6. the. 7. a. 8. x. 9. a. 10. the, the. 11. a. 12. the. 13. a. 14. the. 15. the. 16. the, the, the. 17. an. 18. a. 19. the. 20. the, the. 21. the, the. 22. the, a. 23. the.