Exercise 1. Insert articles with class nouns where necessary. Explain your choice.

1. Not... word was spoken in … parlour. (Caldwell) 2.... room itself was filling up, so was … staircase. (Snow) 3. Though …earth was cold and wet, … sky was clear and…sun rose bright and beautiful. (Dickens) 4. He made them provide not one car, but half…dozen. (Snow) 5. … compass was inven­ted in ancient China. 6. …sky outside…window was already dark, … secretaries had gone home, all was quiet. (Snow) 7. Ed­ward remained …week at …cottage. (Austen) 8. After that, they would meet, perhaps, two or three times …year. (Galsworthy) 9. Dinny looked up at…house; and suddenly saw…face in…window of…dining room. (Galsworthy) 10. You know I never cared for…drama. 11. " It is not … large house, " I said, " We don't want …large house." (Jerome K. Jerome) 12. He looks older than he is, as…dark men often do. (Dickens) 13. Roger looked at him, without…word, took out his wallet, and gave him…ten-shilling note. (Snow) 14. This morn­ing…tobacconist was at his door. (Bennett) 15. I have … long story to tell you. Come and sit down on…sofa and let us have … comfortable chat. (Marryat) 16. And what…beautiful moth there is over there on …wall. (Murdoch) 17. She had…key of her own. (Conan Doyle) 18. He was …short, plump man with…very white face and…very white hands. It was rumoured in London that he powdered them like …woman. (Greene) 19. …old couldn’t help …young... (Galsworthy) 20. To him she would always be … loveliest woman in … world. (Maugham) 21. …strongest have their hours of depression. 22. I am afraid I addressed … wrong person. (Collins) 23. They must have had very fair notions of … artistic and … beautiful. (Jerome.K.Je­rome) 24. …rich think they can buy anything. (Snow) 25. …room has three doors; one on … same side as … fireplace, near … corner, leading to … best bedroom. (Shaw) 26. Thank you, Stephen: I knew you would give me … right advice. (Shaw) 27. Sometimes,... visitors rang … wrong bell. (Bennett) 28. My family came from hereabouts some generations back. I just wanted to have … look at … place, and ask you … question or two. (Galsworthy) 29. He arri­ved half…hour before dinnertime and went up to … school­ room at … top of…house to see…children. (Galsworthy) 30. Far away in…little street there is…poor house. One of … windows is open and through it I can see … woman seated at … table. She is … seamstress. (Wilde) 31. …man who entered was short and broad. He had black hair, and was wearing…grey flannel trousers with…red woolen shirt, open at … neck. 32. Believe me, when…woman really makes up her mind to marry … man nothing on God's earth can save him. (Maugham) 33. I believe I can tell … very moment I began to love him. (Galsworthy) 34. Almost at … moment when she had returned Aileen had appeared. (Dreiser) 35….old man quitted … house secretly at…same hour as before. (Dickens) 36. I wrote to…Managing Editor that this was … wrong moment to change their correspondent. (Greene)