Exercise 3. Supply the required articles for nouns in the following sentences, paying special attention to the nouns that do not admit of the indefinite article.

1. Everyone hates to have to go out in ____rainy weather. 2. ____work gave him____ increasing pleasure. 3. ____weather was so warm that we decided to go swimming 4. He had ____romantic affection for all ____manifestations of ____nature. 5. What ____fine weather we're having today! 6. It would be ____fun for George to be ____Governor and for her to be ____Governor's wife. 7. At first I found it difficult to understand ____English money. 8. I turned the radio on and listened to ____nine o'clock news. 9. In ____warm weather I spent most of the afternoon reading out in ____garden. 10. That morning ____ nature was at its loveliest. 11. I did not enjoy my holiday because ____ weather was very cold. 12. What's ____ news? 13. ‘Congratulations. That was ____very smart work altogether, ’ he said. 14. Have you heard ___ news? 15. We have been having ____frosty weather for ___ week. 16. I lent him five pounds last week. Do you think he will pay ____ money back? 17. ____birds don't like this sort of ____weather. 18. ‘James is not coming tonight.’ ‘Oh, that is ___ bad news.’ 19. You ought to stay at home in ____cold weather. 20. I know ____work I've done is ____good work, the best of my life. 21. He began to think of ____fun he had planned for this day. 22. ____ weather is changing for the worse. 23. Your friend is ____ great fun. 24. I'm not the man to give you ____ advice. 25. He suddenly became aware that Mike had stopped ____ work. 26. Now he remembered that he had given ____ permission to remove ____ crate. 27. That's ____ best news I've heard yet. 28. We hid his watch for ____ fun. 29. Uncle Nick made me feel that we had ____ tremendous work to do. 30. Do you like such ____ weather? 31. ____ news from home is bad. 32. I'm going to cut ____ grass in ____ garden. It's ____ hard work, but it has to be done. 33. Oh, this is not ____ friendly advice. 34. I was trying not to think about ____ work I was set to do. 35. Even if he comes with ____ news I'm hoping for, the situation will remain difficult for a couple of days. 36. I just want to ask you for ____ advice. 37. ____ advice he had got from most of his friends was to turn down ____ offer. 38. The Lieutenant told us to come back with ____ information. So we must find out how many guns they have. 39. ‘I didn't work there long. I fell ill and had to give up the job.’ ‘That's ____ hard luck.’ 40. ____ information they received allowed them to prepare ____ new defence position. 41. What ____ good luck that I found you in!

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of material)

1. We sipped ____ tea so weak that it tasted like ____ metal against the teeth. (Snow) 2. You will be wishing to have ____ tea after your journey, I’m thinking. (Shaw) 3. George said that we must take ____rug, ____ lamp, ____soap, ____ brush and ____comb, ____ tooth-brush, ____ tooth-powder and ____ couple of big towels for bathing. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. ____ children of his age seldom have natural pleasure in ____soap and water. (E. Bronte) 5. There were two bottles of ____ wine, ____ plate of ____ oranges... with ____ powdered sugar. (Dickens) 6. Here, have ____ cham­pagne, I quite forgot to offer you any, or would you rather have ____ tea? (Murdoch) 7. She made ____ coffee. (Murdoch) 8. ____ coffee without ____ bread could never honestly serve as supper. (Saroyan) 9. ____ rest of us had finished eating, but Cave had cut himself another slice of ____ cheese. (Snow). 10. She did not answer, but her face was hard and pale as ____ stone. (Galsworthy) 11. She hurried in again and found ____ water almost boiled away. (Lindsay) 12. ____blood is thicker than ____ water. (Galsworthy) 13. Rosa tasted ____ wine. It was harsh but refreshing. (Murdoch) 14. You drank ____ wine with breakfast, dinner, and supper, and fifty people always drank it with you. (I. Shaw) 15. She looked with ____ eager, hungry eyes at ____ bread and ____ meat and ____beer that ____landlady brought her. (Eliot) 16. ____ coffee was better than Dinny had hoped and very hot. (Galsworthy) 17. She wears ____ little sailor hat of ____ black straw that has long been exposed to ____ dust and soot of London. (Shaw) 18. The moth­er was yellow in colour and her skin resembled ____ leather. (Murdoch). 19. The maid brought in ____ pears, ____ cold chicken, ____ tongue, ____ cheese. (Snow) 20. My heart... felt as heavy as ____ lead. (Du Maurier) 21. Every meal was ____ bread and ____ coffee and ____ cigarettes, and now he had no more bread. (Saroyan)

Exercise 5. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of meals)

1. He said he had letters to write and if I would allow him, would remain in his room till ____ dinner was ready. (Jerome K. Jerome) 2. He came in one morning when I was having ____ breakfast on ____ terrace of ____ hotel and introduced himself. (Maugham) 3. I saw to it that he had ____ good dinner. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. We had ____ cold bacon for ____ lunch that day. There was not much of it. I took it to be ____bacon we had not eaten for ____ breakfast. But on ____ clean dish with parsley it looked rather neat. (Jerome K. Jerome) 5. Mr. Clay settled back in his chair, savoring his drink, expecting ____ good dinner. (I. Shaw) 6. ____ dinner was very sound. (Bennett) 7. Come and have ____ tea on ____ deck. (Bennett) 8. They had ____ supper in ____ silence. (Murdoch) 9. In ____ tiny dining-room, we were having ____ excellent dinner, cooked by Mary Osbaldiston (Snow) 10. She began to dress for ____ dinner to which she had been invited. (Austen) 11. When he arrived the famous Contract was at ____ dinner. (Dreiser) 12. When they arrived and mounted ____ stairs, Stefan behaved as usual, and soon they were eating ____ supper which Jan had prepared. (Murdoch) 13. He assisted her in setting forth ____neat luncheon, consisting of ____ cold chicken, ____ ham and ____ tarts. (Ch. Bronte) 14. ____ dinner was ____ grand one. (Austen) 15. I shall be glad to see you at ____ lunch at half past one. (Shaw) 16. He had given me ____ dinner, and ____ good one. (Snow)

Exercise 6. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of parts of the day)

1. Outside it was ____ night. (Murdoch) 2. It was ____ warm summer night. (Snow) 3. ____ night outside seemed very quiet. (Greene) 4. It was ____ foggy evening in November. (Murdoch) 5. During ____ evening we played innumerable games of piquet... (Maugham) 6. It was ____evening, and he was walking across the school grounds on his way home. (Saroyan) 7. He wondered what hour it was. ____ sun seemed to indicate ____late morning... (Greene) 8. I think it's going to be ____ fine morning, after all. (Shaw) 9. ____ morning was cold and sharp and sunny. (Greene) 10. It is ____early morning. (Shaw) 11. We are going to have ____ ideal night. (Shaw) 12. ____night being sharp and frosty, we trembled from ____head to ____foot. (Dickens) 13. It was early in ____ afternoon. (Murdoch) 14. ____ night was ____ windy one, with broken clouds drifting swiftly across ____ face of ____ three-quarter moon. (Conan Doyle) 15. ____ night came and he sent his sadness into his sleep. (Saroyan) 16. I was up at six in ____ morning. (I. Shaw) 17. She has had ____ bad night, prob­ably ____ rather delirious night. (Shaw) 18. ____ machines at ____ factory were in perpetual motion ____ day and ____ night. (Murdoch) 19. It was about ten o’clock at ____ night. (Maugham) 20. ____ fine September afternoon was dying fast. (Galsworthy) 21. I persuaded him to stay ____ night with me, and I put him into my own bed. (Maugham) 22. ____ day was by this time approaching; ____ West was dim, ____ East beginning to gleam. (Ch. Bronte)

Exercise 7. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of seasons)

1. It was ____ winter, and ____ night of bitter cold. (Wilde) 2. You see ____ winter was ____ very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy ____ bread with. (Wilde) 3. It was ____ very dark evening for ____ summer. (E. Bronte) 4. ____ summer drew to ____ end, and ____ early autumn. (E. Bronte) 5. I wondered if ____ autumn would come upon us two months before her time. (Du Maurier) 6. There was going to be ____ election soon, we all knew: this was ____ spring of 1955. (Snow) 7. It was ____ cold fall and ____ wind came down from ____ mountains. (Heming­way) 8. It was ____ fine day, early in ____ spring, and we were in ____ good humour. (Maugham) 9. He stayed on in Paris during ____summer and worked without a break till ____ autumn was well advanced. (W.S. Maugham) 10. Then ___ spring came, late in that flat, dismal part of the country, cold and rainy still; but sometimes ____ fine warm day made it hard to leave the world above ground…. (W.S. Maugham) 11. By ___ autumn the animals were tired but happy. (G. Orwell) 12. By ____ late summer a sufficient of stone was accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs. (G. Orwell) 13. ____ summer was gone and now ____ Indian summer. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald) 14. She opened a door on the left of the hall as we went in. It would be the drawing-room, not used much in ___ summer. (D. du Maurier) 15. ____ summer is only the unfulfilled promise of ____ spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

Exercise 8. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with bed, school, prison, town)

I. It was eleven o’clock. Annette was still in ____ bed. (Murdoch) 2. Stefan, who had been sitting on the edge of ____bed, came near to her and smiled for ____ first time. (Murdorch) 3. Maycomb was ____ old town. (Lee) 4. Dolores said nothing all ____ way to ____ town. (I. Shaw) 5. Yes, he and my brother had been to ____ school together. (Snow) 6. Before that she had taught history in ____ girls’ school. (Murdoch) 7.____ school was not ____ particularly good one. (Conan Doyle) 8. I never knew ____ lawyer yet who didn’t threaten to put me in ____ prison sooner or later. (Shaw) 9. Steger next visited ____ county jail, close on to five o'clock, when it was already dark. (Dreiser) 10. In all probabil­ity he was already in ____ town. (Austen) 11. Among other public build­ings in ____ certain town there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small —____ workhouse. (Dickens) 12. After leaving ____ school, I became clerk to her father. (Lindsay) 13. She graduated from ____ Pedagogical Institute ____ year ago and now she is working at ____ school in ____ village near Leningrad. 14. ____ prison where Little Dorrit was born was called " The Marshalsea". 15. I haven't done anything that warrants my running away or going to ____ prison, either. I'm merely going there to save time at ____ present. (Dreiser) 16. It was in my walk that night, and in ____ sleepless hours which followed when I lay in ____ bed, that ____ thought first occurred to me which afterwards shaped itself into ____ settled resolution. (Dickens) 17. He told with ____ perfect truth how he had in time been released from ____ prison. (Dickens) 18. When you think of me at all, John, let it only be as ____ little child you have seen grow up in ___ prison. (Dickens) 19. You take your man home, Mrs. Dubedut, and get him to ____bed before eleven. (Shaw) 20. I'm going to be out of ____ town for a few days. So I may not even see you again. (Faulkner) 21. Unless we can give ____ rector ____ bed he has nowhere to lay his head this night. (Shaw) 22. Who could be in ____ prison ____quarter of ____century, and be prosperous! (Dickens)

Exercise 9. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified by most)

1. You have had ____ most distinguished career... (Snow) 2. This was ____ most painful thought of all. (Murdoch) 3. He had put himself in ____ most unsatisfactory position, politically and socially. (Dreiser) 4. She was ____ most beautiful young girl; ____ most beautiful girl he had ever seen. (Bennett) 5. ____ most of ____ women had flowers or little black feathers sticking up in their hair. (Glyn) 6. I started relating ____ most interesting anecdote, but was somewhat surprised to observe... that nobody was paying ____ slightest attention to me whatever. (Jerome K. Jerome) 7. ____news he had conveyed to her would have terrified ____ most women. (Cronin) 8. He was ____ man of ____most subtle and refined intellect. ____ man of ____ culture, ____charm and ____distinction. One of ____ most intellectual men I ever met. (Wilde) 9. Her life held so little of ____real charm; and Aileen Butler was ____ most significant element of ____ romance in it. (Dreiser) 10. Youth in her South Carolinian home had been simple and self-reliant; and unlike ____ most American girls, she had not had too good ____ time. (Galsworthy) 11. It was ____ most beautiful room. It was ____ most beautiful room in ____ house. (Du Маurier) 12. Gentleman, he was ____ most excellent man, ____ most gentle, tender and estimable man, with ____ simplicity of ____ child. (Dickens) 13. ____ Norman Conquest is one of ____ most important events in ____ English history, and it had ____ greatest influence on ____ history of ____ language.

Exercise 10. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of persons)

1. Margaret was talking to ____ Osbaldistons. (Snow) 2. In ____ dim light streaming down ____ stairs from behind her, he scarcely recognized ____ Lily he had known. (Lindsay) 3. ____barbaric Bertie got no hint whatever that he was barbaric. (Bennett) 4. ____ father and ____ daughter appeared at last. (Wells) 5. Gradman is here, darling, and ____ mother, and ____ Aunt Winifred, and Kit and Michael. Is there anyone you would like to see? (Galsworthy) 6. Louis seemed rather ____ gray, still, retiring man, but ____ Caroline of this evening, which was not ____ Caroline of every day, thawed his reserve. (Ch. Bronte) 7. She watched ____ advent of ____Tasburghs almost maliciously. Hubert and ____ young Tasburgh at once discovered mutual service in Mesopotamia. (Galsworthy) 8. My visit was specially made to ____ good Mrs. Ames. (Conan Doyle) 9. ____ professor Beans is ____ man to whom you'll be re­sponsible for your undergraduate teaching. (Wilson) 10. This Pat wasn’t at all like ____Pat of his memories. When she smiled he saw ____ Pat he had known, ____Pat smiling at him from ____worn photo that still lay in ____ pocketbook against his heart. But watching her he grew aware that ____ family was divided in its attitude. Alice... and Mrs. Baxter were ____partisans of ____ new Pat. He still felt that he couldn't bring ____ two Pats together; but he didn't hold that against ____ Pat of ____ present. (Lindsay) 11. ____ flustered Clarice stood beside me. (Du Maurier) 12. If you are ____ Napoleon, you will play ____ game of ____ power; if you’re ____ Leonardo, you’ll play for ____ knowledge; ____ stakes hardly matter. (Wallace) 13. At that time I had greatest admira­tion for ____ Impressionists. I longed to possess ____ Sisley and ____ Degas, and I worshipped ____ Manet. (Maugham) 14. I overtook ____ pretty little Hetty Sorrel as I was coming to my den. (Eliot) 15. He cared to say no more; he had thrown quite dust enough into ____ honest Adam’s eyes. (Eliot) 16. This was ____ famous Frank A. Cowperwood whom he had read about... (Dreiser) 17. ____ certain Joseph Zimmerman suggested that he undertake operating in street railway shares for him. (Dreiser) 18. Elsie said she would ring up ____ Doctor Worple. (Bennett) 19. ____ poor Edward muttered something, but what it was nobody knew. (Austen) 20. He was gayer than I had thought... youthful and ardent in ____ hundred happy ways, not ____ Maxim I had first met. (Du Maurier) 21. I have ____ address of ____man in London to whom ____ Professor writes. (Conan Doyle) 22. It has been said that there is no instance, in modern times, of ____ Chuzzlewit having been found on terms of ____ intimacy with ____ great. (Dickens). 23. ____ gentle, tender-hearted Ame­lia Sedley was ____only person to whom she (Becky) could attach herself in ____ least. (Thackeray) 24. Yet ____ room itself was bright and elegant; on one wall was ____ fine Sisley, of poplars and sunny water, on another ____ still life by Nicholas de Staёl, pastel fruit in ____ white dish. (Snow) 25. ____ captain Cuttle lived on ____ brink of ____ little canal. (Dickens)

Exercise 11. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with predicative nouns and nouns in apposition)

1. Ostrovsky commenced ____clerk in ____ Moscow Commercial Court. 2. Selina, ____ daughter of ____ Paddocks, had been surprised that afternoon by receiving ____ letter from her once intended husband. (Hardy) 3. My father became ____ rector of Burnmore when I was nine. (Wells) 4. Cashel was to go to ____ sea, so that if his affairs became des­perate, he could at least turn ____ pirate. (Shaw) 5. He was ____ particular friend of Sir John’s. (Austen). 6. You are not ____ person you claim to be. (Dickens) 7. His money was ____ money I brought him as my marriage portion. (Shaw) 8. That meeting had occurred at ____house of ____ high official of ____ British Museum, ____ scholar with whom Arthur was on ____ friendly terms. (Bennett) 9. Mrs. Patterson, ____lymphatic woman, was holding her son Jim by ____ hand. (Lindsay) 10. ____ trained diplomat and statesman as he was, his stern aristocratic face was upside down with ____ fury. (Leacock) 11. I am not ____ good fisherman myself. (Jerome K. Jerome) 12. Ever since then I haven’t been able to suppress ____gnaw­ing thoughts in my mind. I’m not strong enough to suppress them. I’m too weak. I’m not ____ man enough. (Caldwell) 13. You were ____ dear little girl; I see it now, looking back. But not ____ little girl I had in my mind. (Jerome K. Jerome) 14. He looked thin, and yellow as ____ guinea, and he had turned ____ miser. (Reade) 15. You should have been ____woman enough to controlyourself. (Hardy) 16. What ____ charming house you have, Lady Chiltern! (Wilde) 17. I am Anthony Anderson, ____ man you want. (Shaw) 18. Only, his forehead and mouth betray an extraor­dinary steadfastness; and his eyes are ____ eyes of ____ fanatic. (Shaw) 19. He had just been appointed ____ Lord Justice of appeal. (Snow) 20. His clothes are not ____ clothes, nor his anxious wife ____ wife of ____ prosperous man. (Shaw) 21. I was ____ fool enough to ask her to live here still, and direct ____ affairs of ____ house for me. (E. Bronte)

Exercise 12. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with set expressions)

1. I trust you to tell me ___ bare truth, whatever it is. (Snow) 2. The maid, looking to right and left, spoke in ____ low and hurried voice. (Galsworthy) 3. On his trip round ____ world with Fleur he had often put his nose out and watched the dancing on ____deck. (Galsworthy) 4. He decided that he would not at ____ present explain to her who he was. (Bennett) 5. I saw ____ good deal of him during ____ war. (Snow) 6. He has taken his death very much to ____ heart indeed. (Collins) 7. What did her education and her accomplishments amount to? She could keep ____ house. (Bennett) 8. All seemed perfectly at their ease, by no means in ____ hurry. (Dickens) 9. Somebody important must have been arriving from Europe by ____ air... (Greene) 10. Am I dealing, young people, with ____ case of ____ love at ____ first sight? (Galsworthy) 11. We’ve had some tea already on ____board ____ yacht. (Shaw) 12. Rosa was well aware that she had never taken ____ trouble to get to know Annette. (Murdoch) 13. You will go to ____sea and forget all about me in ____ month. (Galsworthy) 14. He was about to start on ____ long journey, ____ difficult one, by ____ sea, and no soul would know where he was gone. (Eliot) 15. It is ____ pleasure to see you. (Galsworthy) 16. He held ____ very guarded conversation with her on his way home, for fear that she would take ____ additional offence. Argument was out of ____ ques­tion. (Dreiser) 17. On ____other hand, if he was beaten he took it with complete good humour. (Maugham) 18. He is beginning to lose ____ heart, they say. (Reade) 19. She burned like ____ fire from ____ head to ____ foot. (Hardy) 20. I got into conversation with him by ____ chance at ____ concert. (Shaw) 21. She’s taken quite ____ fancy to you, Ridgeon. (Shaw) 22. ____furniture was all sent round by ____ water. (Austen) 23. I returned at once, and found Ada sitting at ____ work by ____ fireside. (Dickens) 24. He played ____ flute. (Miller) 25. Somewhere ____ great many men were singing. (Greene) 26. He was chronically in ____ debt. (Snow) 27. ____ woman I fixed my eye on was ____ woman who kept ____ house for me at my cottage. (Collins) 28. It is ____ pity to worry her if she has ____ talent for ____ uneasiness. (Galsworthy) 29. He has given ____ permission to go up and see her there. (Priestley) 30. Behind ____ house was ____ large garden, and in summer, ____ pupils almost lived out of

____ doors. (Ch. Bronte) 31. ____ rain had stopped: and we went on ____ foot to ____ Ebury Street. (Snow) 32. They started at ____ dawn, and ____ boy I sent with them didn’t come back till next day. (Maugham) 33. On being informed that her departure would be delayed she had flown into ____ violent passion. (Collins) 34. All of ____ sudden, his face had become stony. (Snow) 35. Dear, dear! It seems only ____ other day since I took you down to school at Slough! (Galsworthy) 36. Mr. Byron Waller could play ____ violin. (Lee)

Exercise 13. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with geographical names)

1. After ____ tour in ____ Austrian Alps they had gone to ____ Hô ­tel Splendide at ____ Montreux, in order to enjoy for ____ day or two ____ charms of ____ Lake of ____ Geneva. (Bennett) 2. Dusk was already falling on ____ noble curve of ____ Thames. (Bennett) 3. I hear he's off to ____ Central Africa. (Bennett) 4. In Ivanhoe Walter Scott describes ____ England of ____ Middle Ages. 5. ____ Capetown is in ____ South Africa. 6. In ____ heart of ____ Central Asia lies ____ Khoresm, ____ small fertile area in ____sea of ____ sand. 7. ____ prospect ends.... in little hills that come nearly to ____sea; rudiments, these, of ____ Atlas Mountains. (Shaw) 8. " We've been touring ____ world... We tried ____South America...We lasted three days in ____ Australia..." " Have you ever been to ____States? " (Amis) 9. Michael looked quizzically at his parent. Did he quite understand ____ England of today? (Galsworthy) 10. She nodded ____ command to ____ footman, and they drove off westward, down ____ Strand, and so into ___ little side street by ____ Charing Cross. (Bennett) 11. I am going to Folkestone today, and shall stay at ____ Metropole. (Bennett) 12. They were excited because they had been dining with ____editor of ____ Times, and had been given ____ glimpse of next day's paper. (Snow) 13. She sat in her superb private drawing room at ____ Hotel Cecil. 14. __ boys loved him because he told them that __ Navy had borrowed him from __ U. S. Army just in time to blow taps on __ Maine as she was sinking, and he remained long after everyone including ____ captain had abandoned __ ship. (Wilson) 15. He began to walk very rapidly up towards ____ Trafalgar Square. (Greene) 16. He went out and ate ____ ices at ____ pastry-cook’s shop in ____ Charing Cross; tried ____ new coat in ____ Pall Mall; and called for __ Captain Cannon, played eleven games at __ billiards with ____ captain, and returned to __ Russell Square. (Thackeray) 17. ____ street was empty, unlighted save by ____ reflection from ____ Grandlieu Street behind them... (Faulkner) 18. In 1905 ____ revolt broke out on ____ Potemkin, one of ____ battleships of ____ Black Sea Fleet. 19. Yet, in ____bright drawing room in __ Lord North Street, all he was think­ing of was what ____Telegraph, ____ Guardian, the popular press, would say next day. (Snow)