Practice. Exercise 1Explain the use of articles with nouns used predicatively in the following sentences:

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Exercise 1 Explain the use of articles with nouns used predicatively in the following sentences:

1. He was a lawyer by profession. 2. Aunt Laura was the widow of an auctioneer. 3. When Murry was appointed editor of " The Literary Gazette" his salary became eight hundred a year. 4. As it was, she was the best-looking woman there. 5. Jasper was the son of my father's elder brother. 6. My father had been Chairman of an organization of doctors in New York. 7. He was a talkative fellow. 8. They made him a major-general after he left the headquarters. 9. We were children of our class and time. 10. Johnson is made secretary of the club. 11. John could not make up his mind about the blackmail. He had been led to think that McGrath himself was the blackmailer or at least a blackmailer because he had the personality to be a blackmailer. 12. After some most astonishing adventures in New Guinea he made himself king of some wild tribe. 13. No, you are getting this quite wrong. She's the wife of a friend of mine. 14. Prynne was manager of the estate up the river. 15. With a face like yours I'd be at least the president of a steel company.

1. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired colonel who had lost his temper in India. 2. It wouldn't be hard to make up a story for Uncle Philip. 3. For some days Hotchkinson, the solicitor to whom Eden had deputed the case, sent me no news. 4. He had been to the tomb of Hafiz the poet. 5. Two men, two passengers, came along the gangway, and she amused herself by trying to guess whether they were single or married. 6. Charles was dancing with his cousin, a good-looking girl. 7. Even Mr March, the most realistic man there, could not forgive me. 8. He now arranged with Spender, editor of " The Times Literary Supplement", to write articles on current French literature. 9. They drove up to the terminal, a brightly lighted and air-conditioned building. 10.I was chatting with the man's wife, a lady in purple trousers, when he was called to the telephone. 11. He accepted the post of secretary to a diplomatic mission. 12. In the rear of the car, Margaret Howden, wife of the President of the firm, said to her husband: " You look tired." 13. He's Doctor Evans, the nephew of your host tonight. 14. The principal of the school decided to send the boy Chalmers back home. 15. That evening I was introduced to Captain Riley.

Exercise 3 Supply the required articles, paying special attention to the nouns used predicatively.

1. He was at that time _____ lieutenant in _____ British Army. 2. Mr Richardson was _____ owner and editor-in-chief of the publishing house. 3. Rudy had _____ gift of being liked. That was why he had been elected _____ president of his class three times in a row. 4.She was _____ wife of _____ doctor. 5. Philip was not _____ humbug but _____ hard and realistic man. 6. At the time I was_____ manager of_____ Crawford Street branch of _____ bank. 7. I saw _____ group of _____ workmen coming toward us. One of them was_____ fat, red-faced man, and I presume he was_____ foreman. 8. Mr Knight was _____ excessively lazy man, who preferred to sit down. 9. It's _____ girl called Betsy. She's _____ boss's secretary. 10. Henry Greene was _____ son of _____ general. 11. It seemed that Aunt Milly had been _____ only relative to offer practical help. 12. His study was _____ darkest room in _____ house. 13. His father was _____ good soldier. 14. I might be _____ leader of _____ party instead of you. 15. His wife and Sheila were _____active, strong women, who loved using their muscles. 16. I'm going to be _____ president of this company. 17. This fellow is _____ man I want for the job. 18. He was_____ manager of _____ largest estate in _____ district. 19. ____ man who wore_____ glasses was _____ husband of Mrs Holt. 20. " We are merely_____ tourists, " Tom said. 21. " She is _____ very silly creature, " he said. 22. There seemed no reason why he should not eventually be made _____ Governor. 23. On _____ way back to our compartment we passed Natalie Winter. She was _____ very shy woman. She was also _____ star of the season. 24. She is proud of being _____ daughter of _____ poet. 25. If anyone could tell her what Mr Potter wanted to know, Mrs Ferguson was_____woman.

Exercise 4 Look at the statements below. Decide whether you can leave out “the” where it is underlined in each sentence, and put “yes” or “no” in the spaces provided.

Exercise 5 Supply the required articles, paying special attention to the nouns used in apposition.

1. ____Philip's wife, ____ biggest snob in ____ family, invited me to tea. 2. Then we were joined by ____ two women, ____ acquaintances of Charles and Ann. 3. Across from her sat Delaney, ____ producer of the picture. 4. I said: " This is Mary Summers, ____ old school friend of mine." 5. I have got ____ job of ____ secretary to our new MP. 6. ____ figure 5 is ____ same for ____ Russian or ____ American while ____ word " five" is not. 7. ____ Admiral Lacey was ____ red-faced man. 8. They sat in ____ drawing-room round the portable wireless, ____present from Fleur. 9. Then he walked down Broadway, ____ main street of ____ town. 10. She was ____ daughter of ____ well-known theatrical manager, ____willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with ____ colourless eyes. 11. He assumed ____ role of ____ breadwinner for ____family. 12. ____ General Holt withdrew his plan. 13. They had lunch at Hexley, ____ small village on ____ coast. 14. He was their favourite nephew, ____ son of their dead elder sister. 15. Grant got little information from Andy, ____ mail-car driver. 16. He introduced me to ____ girl Patricia, and I was glad of an opportunity to look at her face. 17. Peter hit so hard that he broke my arm. I fell to ____ ground yelling. Waters, ____ gym teacher, carried me off ____ field. 18. We spoke to ____ Philip's secretary, ____ youngish man called Williams. 19. Within a short time, Gregory married Zalia Phelps, ____ daughter of Angus Phelps, ____ planter in Georgia. 20. Sam, ____ man who ran ____ elevator, didn't like Peter. 21. Smiley, ____ captain of ____ team, got up on ____ bench and told them of his plan. 22. ____ nurse Everett, ____ bony woman of fifty, herself opened ____door. 23. He would be given ____ post of ____ Minister of Justice.

1. ____ Academician Zhukovsky is called ____ father of Russian aviation. 2. The description of how ____ Uncle Podger tried to hang a picture is one of the funniest episodes in the book. 3. Many famous people were frequent visitors at Abramtsevo, among them ____ writer Gogol, ____poet Shevchenko and ____actor Shchepkin. 4. Once upon a time there lived ____ doctor Aibolit who was a great friend of all animals. 5. ____ captain Barlow was what was called an “old sea dog”. 6. “Who operated on your son? ” “____ certain surgeon Kryukov.” 7. ____ brother Peter was the preacher of the community of Stilleveld. 8. They met in Moscow, ____ Russian Oleg, ____ Indian Rudj, ____ Italian Antonio and ____ Negro Joshua. 9. He went downward along the same road along which he had driven when a high-school boy in ____ stripped-down Ford. 10. ____ Queen Mary was launched by ____ Queen Mary in 1938.

Exercise 7 Fill in the blanks with articles before appositive and predicative nouns wherever necessary.

1. Melanie was ____ fool, but there was nothing anybody could do about it. 2. She was ____ only woman I had ever met who could behave so gracefully. 3. Charlie wasn't ____ fool enough as to put up the back of the Assistant Colonial secretary. 4. Hemingway, ____ son of a small town doctor, was born in Illinois in 1898. 5. Kust, ____bartender, gave Bill and Janice a smile of recognition. 6. Tara had risen to riches on cotton, even as the whole South had risen, and Scarlett was ____ Southerner enough to believe that both Tara and the South would rise again out of the red fields. 7. Behind him his cousin, the tall George, ____son of the fifth Forsyte, had a strange look on his fleshy face. 8. " You staying here? " - " New boy in town. I am ____ instructor in the ski school." 9. My first thought that this should be ____ son of Jane Fowler's fiance proved to be correct. 10. My father was____ mayor of the village and ____honorable man. 11. His laboratory, ____ best institution of this kind, made Cambridge world known in the field of experimental physics. 12. James Clerk Maxwell, ____ great physicist and mathematician, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1831. 13. When Mike had seen her, she was ____ girl of eighteen. 14. She dressed like — well, like what she was, ____ wife of the assistant Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong. 15. She didn't know whether he had gone ____ Republican, or ____ Democrat. 16. ____ prisoner as he was, Rhett Butler was ____ dangerous man.

1. Пол Дрейк, голова розшукового агенства Дрейка, сидів у кріслі, очікуючи на Мейсона. 2. Це нещасний випадок який міг би трапитись будь з ким. 3. „Тоні, - сказав Олівер, - нехай лікар Патерсон скаже те, що хоче сказати”. 4. Роберт Шеннон, маленький сирота-ірландець, жив у родині свого дядька. 5. Еллі була дочкою процвітаючого фермера. 6. Ньютон став членом Королівського товариства, провідного наукового товариства у Великобританії. 7. Бальзак, видатний французький романіст, часто говорив своїм друзям, що може визначити характер будь-кого за його чи її почерком. 8. Я Ентоні Андерсон, людина, яка вам потрібна. 9. Я вважаю, що він отримає свою посаду знов, якщо він справжній чоловік. 10. Одна з моїх читачок прочитала одну з моїх книжок та написала мені про це. 11. Дівчина, яку він кохав, була Лаура Мертон, дочка полковника. 12. Я був досить дурним для того, щоб запросити її жити сюди. 13. ЇЇ батько, професор Шрон, помер цього року. 14. Леді Рівет була стрункою і добре одягнутою. 15. Вона жінка керуючого готелем. 16. Мій батько був священиком у миленькому церковному приході у Кавінгорусі, невеличкому селищі. 17. О’Доннел був головою хірургічного відділення. 18. Вона була одружена із сером Максом Маллованом, відомим археологом. 19. Катарина була дружиною бідного клерка з Міністерства Освіти. 20. „Вони зробили з мене начальника відділом, ”- прошепотів Джон.

Exercise 9 Translate from Ukrainian into English paying attention to the nouns in apposition.

1. Байрон, видатний англійський поет, боровся за волю Греції. 2. Нам дуже сподобався їх дім, невелика двоповерхова будівля на березі річки. 3. Ківі, тропічний фрукт, багатий вітаміном С. 4. Картина, невелика полотнина, коштувала ціле багатство. 5. Мій друг – віце-президент великої компанії. 6. На Різдво тітка Соня та дядько Антон приїдуть до нас. 7. Діти, бешкетні підлітки, часто приходили до нас пограти в теніс. 8. Собака, величезний вівчарка, охороняв наш будинок вночі. 9. Професор Микитенко, декан математичного факультету, був завжди уважний до студентів. 10. Петро Андрієнко – голова нашої фірми. 11. Всі діти люблять Міккі Мауса, знаменитого мультиплікаційного героя. 12. Уолт Дізней, відомий мультиплікатор і продюсер, створив Дізнейленд, величезний парк розваг, який було відкрито у Каліфорнії у 1955 році.