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Practice. Exercise 1 Write the correct article in the space

Exercise 1 Write the correct article in the space. DO NOT write the if the prepositional phrase, adjective phrase or adjective clause does not make the noun definite.

1. Daley Park was almost empty. I saw only ­­­____ man with a dog. 2. ­­­____ teacher that we had last semester was especially good. 3. Jan said, “I want to buy ­­­____ computer that has a lot of memory” 4. I’m so absent-minded! I just locked ­­­____ keys to my car inside the car. 5. There’s ­­­____ law against drinking and driving. 6. ­­­____ house destroyed by the fire was mine. 7. ­­­____ woman who wrote “Gone with the Wind” died tragically. 8. I’d like to buy ____ car that has an air bag. 9. ­­­____ town where I grew up is now a big city. 10. Yesterday night I saw ­­­____ man running down the street. 11. ­­­____ day after tomorrow is Saturday. 12. Is there ­­­____ FAX machine in your office? 13. I don’t like ­­­____ answer to question number 7. 14. I want to clean ­­­____ top of the refrigerator. 15. Do you have ­­­____ radio in your car? 16. The doctors at Mercy Hospital give ­­­____ patients excellent care. 17. There’s ­­­____ movie that I want to see on TV. 18. ­­­____ woman that Mozart married was a poor housekeeper. 19. My boss is looking for ­­­____ assistant who can help him with computers. 20. At school, there are ­­­____ computers that students and teachers can use.

Exercise 2 Insert articles where necessary.

1. ­­_____ man of whom I speak is ­­_____ low pantomime actor. 2. Excuse me now; I have to see ­­_____ man who’s in trouble. 3. He listened attentively to a great many stories she told him about _____ amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to _____ amiable and handsome man and lived in the country. 4. I always think there’s something rather cold and cheerless about _____ house that lacks _____ woman’s touch. 5. He stood up and looked at _____ house where he had been born, grown up, and played, as if asking for _____ answer. 6. Her throat aches because of _____ tears locked in it. 7. There were half _____ dozen pocket robberies _____ day in _____ trams of Brussels. 8. At last they reached _____ door at which _____ servant knocked cautiously. 9. We passed _____ set of chambers where I had worked as _____ young man. 10. We dropped into _____ very pleasant nook under _____ great elm tree, to _____ spreading roots of which we fastened _____ boat.

Exercise 3 Insert articles where necessary.

1. He was staring at ­­______ waves like ______ man cornered by ______ strange animal. 2. You don’t know ______ man you are married to. 3. He spoke with a very slow, distinct voice… and always looked over ______ shoulder of ______ person to whom he was talking. 4. There had been at ______ dining table ______ middle-aged man with ______ dark eye and ______ sunburned face, who attracted Martin’s attention. 5. They walked ______ mile or more along ______ handsome street which ______ colonel said was called Broadway. 6. Colonel Mordaunt does not look like ______ man who would do ______ mean or dishonourable thing. 7. Rosa then noticed with surprise that she was in ______ room in which ______ party had been held. 8. She is ______ elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it. 9. There we were in ______ country none of us knew anything about, amongst Indians and ______ people that were only half civilized. 10. As Dick took up his pipe, ______ man who had passed into ______ smoking car with him put down his newspaper and looked at him. For ______ moment Dick was puzzled. It was ______ face he knew, but he could not put ______ name to it.

Exercise 4 Make up situations of your own to justify the use of the articles in the following pairs of sentences.

1. A stout man came up and shook hands.

The stout man came up and shook hands.

2. I’ve got a job.

I’ve got the job.

3. This is a local library.

This is the local library.

4. He was standing behind a car.

He was standing behind the car.

5. He wrote down a figure.

He wrote down the figure.

Exercise 5 Determine whether the articles refer to the noun in the genitive case or the head-noun. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. They lived in a two-foot shelter just outside the officers' dug­out. 2. He was eager to see Dennis, who was at a boys' camp some­where. 3. There were two old men there and they were taken to an old people's home. 4. They made a two hours'journey in a train which stopped at every station. 5. After a six months' period of drought it started raining every day. 6. He was a tall young man with a sad clown's face under stiff red hair. 7. He returned the old woman's smile. 8. On the opposite side of the street was the Sharpes' old car. 9. She was a miner's widow. 10. Have you read Bob's new novel?