- •Contents
- •Part 1 use of articles with common nouns
- •1. Class Nouns
- •I liked the room because there were flowers in it.
- •I have brought you some flowers.
- •I have got the magazine.
- •I do wish we had not opened the door of the wrong room.
- •In a fortnight I got a long letter, which I considered odd.
- •1. Fill in the articles where necessary
- •2. Change the nouns into the plural
- •2. Nouns of Material
- •Fill in the articles or "some" where necessary
- •3. Abstract Nouns
- •Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Part 2 use of articles with proper nouns
- •1. Names of Persons
- •If you are going West may I come with you? I want to see Aunt Emily and Uncle Lawrence.
- •I met Robert's father.
- •Fill in the articles where necessary
- •2. Geographical Names
- •3. Names of Hotels, Ships, Newspapers, Magazines, Universities, Airport, Railway stations, etc
- •4. Names of Cardinal Points
- •5. Names of Months and Days
- •Part 3 use of articles with nouns in some set expressions
- •1. The Use of the Indefinite Articles with Nouns in Set Expressions
- •2. The Use of the Definite Article with Nouns in Set Expressions
- •3. Nouns in Set Expression Used Without an Article
- •1. Fill in the articles where necessary
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Give English for:
- •Part 4 use of articles in some syntactical relations
- •1. The Use of Articles with Predicative Nouns
- •2. The Use of Articles with Nouns in Apposition.
- •I want to introduce you to Comrades b. And d., great friends of mine.
- •3. Place of the Article
- •It was as black a house inside as out side.
- •I've never heard of such a thing.
- •It took us half an hour to get there.
- •1. Fill in the article where necessary
- •2. Translate into English:
- •It was evening. The river was before them.
- •It is easier to work by day than at night.
- •2. The use of articles with names of seasons
- •3. The use of articles with the nouns school, college, bed, prison, jail, church, hospital, market
- •I knew he was badly ill, so I softly drew the chair to the bed and sat down.
- •4. The use of articles with the noun town
- •I want to go the town where I was born.
- •5. The use of articles with the names of meals
- •6. The use of articles with names of language
- •A) nouns day, night, morning, evening part 1 Choose the right variant:
- •Part 2 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Translate into English:
- •D) names of meals part 1 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Translate into English:
- •Part 3 Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Part 6 use of articles with nouns modified by certain adjectives,pronouns and numerals
- •1. Most
- •It's a most difficult problem.
- •2. Few, a few, the few; little, a little, the little
- •3. Two, the two, three, the three, etc
- •I ate two pears. He pressed me to have a third pear but I refused.
- •I rang the bell, but nobody answered it, so I had to ring a second time.
- •I am thirsty, I should like another cup of tea.
- •Fill in the articles where necessary: a) most
- •B) few, little
- •C) second, third, etc.
- •D) another or the other
- •E) a number, the number
- •Part 7 the final tests Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Fill in the articles where necessary in the following extract
- •Fill in the required articles for all kinds of the nouns in the following text:
3. Names of Hotels, Ships, Newspapers, Magazines, Universities, Airport, Railway stations, etc
Names of hotels, theatres, museums, picture galleries, concert halls, clubs, cinemas, ships, newspapers and magazines are used with the definite article: the Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Theatre, the British Museum, the Lenin Museum, the Tate (Gallery),the Tretjakov Gallery, the Festival Hall, the Albert Hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall, the Odeon (cinema),the National Liberal Club, the Savoy, the Ambassador Hotel, the Times, the Lancet.
...all he was thinking of ...was what the Telegraph, the Guardian, the popular press, would say next day.
She sat in her superb private drawing room at the Hotel Cecil.
Names of universities are used without articles:
London University, Cambridge University, Harward University, Moscow University.
Note: but the University of London, the University of Moscow.
Names of airports, railway stations are used without articles:
London airport, Moscow airport, Victoria station.
Names of political organizations and parties are used with the definite article:
the Supreme Soviet, the Liberal Party, the Church, the London City Counsil, the Soviet Army.
Note: but Parliament ( in Great Britain),(the) Congress (in the USA), NATO.
4. Names of Cardinal Points
With the names of cardinal points the definite article is used:
the North, the South, the West, the East.
In the expressions from East to West, from North to South no article is used.
5. Names of Months and Days
As a rule names of months and days are used without articles:
May is a spring month.
My day off is Friday.
When these nouns are modified by a particularizing attribute the definite article is used:
The May of 1949 will always rest in my memory.
The names of days are used with the indefinite article when we mean one of many Mondays, Fridays, etc.
Robinson Crusoe found his servant on a Friday.
The names of month are used with the indefinite article when modified by a descriptive attribute.
A cold May is the usual thing in St. Petersburgh.
E X E R C I S E S
1.Supply the required articles for nouns in the following sentences, paying special attention to miscellaneous proper names.
1. "Do you know where he's staying?" - "At _ Bristol."
2. Mr. Robinson arrived at _ London airport from _ New York yesterday on his way
to _ Soviet Union.
3. Usually he used to read _ few articles out of _ 'Time' or _ 'Newsweek'.
4. When last heard from he was at _ University of Berlin.
5. He had applied for his assistantship in _ answer to _ advertisement in _ "Lancet".
6. Soon after that he was expelled from _ Harvard University.
7. _ Friedrich Weber was _ freighter sailing from _ Hamburg to _ Colombo.
8. On their way to _ Savoy Hotel he refused to tell Tom what would happen there.
9. David said in _ gruff voice that he never read _ "News of the World".
10. _ liner "Queen Elizabeth" sails at 8 a.m. this morning on _ schedule.
2. Read the comic verse and fill in the articles where necessary.
SOLOMON GRUNDY
was born on _ Monday
finished school on _ Tuesday
got married on _ Wednesday
fell ill one Thursday
got worse on _ Friday
died on _ Saturday
was buried on _ Sunday
that was _ end of Solomon Grundy.