Determiners: articles 1- a/ an goes only with a singular noun ( when we 1 st menti on somethi ng ) we use a before a consonant and an before a vowel . BUTit depends on the pronunciation of the following word, not the spelling ( a school, an elephant, a university, an honest man, a harpy , a hero, a uniform, aholiday, a European, …) 2- with a plural or an uncountable noun we use some ( an amount of )3- the goes with both singular and plural and with uncountable nouns (when we know which person/thing we mean- - - - - I bought a r adio and a CD pla yer, butthe CD playerdidn’t work. )4- O ( zero article) is used to express a general meaning, or generalisations EXERCISES A- Write the missing words ( A , An , The or O( if no word is missing !!) ; use the numeral “ one”: Complete (1) ……… story about (2) ………theft of (3) ……… river barge: this is (4) ………true story about(5) ………man who chose (6) ………worst possible time for his crime. It happened in London in (7) ………summer of (8) ………1972. (9) ……… man stole (10) ……..barge on (11)….. River Thames (in case you don’t know, (12) ………barge is (13) ………river boat used for carrying goods). (14) ………owner of (15) ……barge soon discovered that it was missing and immediately informed (16)…… police so that they could look for it. Normally (17) ………river is quite (18) ………busy place, and it would be difficult to find what you were looking for. On this day, however, there was (19) ………dock strike, and so there was only (20) ………barge on (21) ………river. (22) ………thief was quickly found and arrested. B- Write the missing words ( A , An , The or O( if no word is missing !!) ; You may us e “ some”, the numeral “ one”, too: A silly mistake This is also (1) ………true story. It shows how (2) ………plans can sometimes go wrong and how (3) ……… people can make silly mistakes. This too happened quite (4) ………long time ago—in(5) ……..1979, in fact. (6) ………sc ene was (7 ) ………old people’s ho me in (8) ………s mall town in (9) ……… north of England called (10) ……..Otley. (11)….. owners of (12) ………home wanted to put (13) ………fence around it to make it more private. (14) ………work began soon after (15) ……Christmas when (16)…… workmen arrived in (17)………..lorr y with planks of wood which they put up around (18) ………building. “It was (19) ………very nice fence,” said (20) ……of (21) ……old people. But there was (22) ……… problem. (23)………wor kmen forgot to leave (24) ………..gap for (25)……..lorry to drive out through. They had to come back (26)………nex t day to knock down part of ( 27)……….fence . “What (28)………….sill y mistake”, said another resident.” It was so funny we had to laugh. In fact it was (29)…………. most fun we’ve had for (30)………..long time.”
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