Exercise 5. Insert articles where necessary. Pay attention to the use of of – phrases, define their type (descriptive, limiting).

1. So one moment you’re turning up your nose at __ heart of gold, the next you’re giving body and soul to someone who’s not worth it. (J. Fowles)

2. Shortly after this I spent some weeks of the autumn in Paris and met him at __ house of a common acquaintance. (W.S. Maugham)

3. Who am I to explain __ infinite complexities of human nature? (W.S. Maugham)

4. With __ delicate flattery of __ woman of the world she treated me as if I were her contemporary… (W.S. Maugham)

5. This was __ woman’s room, graceful, fragile, __ room of someone who had chosen every particle of furniture with __ great care, so that each chair, each vase, each small, infinitesimal thing should be in harmony with one another, and her own personality. (D. du Maurier)

6. She was in __ black, and at __ glance I noticed that her silk dress, neither too plain nor too fancy, had been made by one of the best dressmakers in Paris, and she wore it with __ careless confidence of __woman to whom it is __ second nature to wear expensive clothes. (W.S. Maugham)

7. It might be that the grace of her gestures, the felicity of her carriage, had been acquired by taking thought, but they had __ look of __ perfect spontaneity. (W.S. Maugham)

8. I saw that I had upset him far more than he had upset myself, and the realization of this calmed me and gave me __ feeling of __ superiority. (D. du Maurier)

9. She was not sure how he was going to take __ news of her marriage. (S. Sheldon)

10. She gave you __ feeling of __ snake. (D. du Maurier)

11. And Favell began to laugh, __ laugh of __ drunkard, high-pitched, forced and foolish, and all the while twisting Rebecca’s note between his fingers. (D. du Maurier)

12. I heard __ rumble of __ buses, __ hooting of taxis, that inevitable, tireless London roar, but I was not part of it. (D. du Maurier)

13. I am glad it cannot happen twice, __ fever of first love. For it is __ fever, and __ burden, too, whatever the poets may say. (D. du Maurier)

14. He was gracious enough to tell me that he could see at a glance that I was __ man of __ impeccable taste. (W.S. Maugham)

15. The farm possessed __ threshing machine and __ hay elevator of its own. (G. Orwell)

16. She walked rapidly for some twenty yards before she heard __ sound of __ fast moving car coming up behind her. (J.H. Chase)

17. The evening and other evenings passed like that, and ended with my going back to camp with the remembered smell of magnolia flowers and __ mood of __ vague dissatisfaction. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. It was __ time of youth and war, and there was never so much love around. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. With __ dread of being alone he attached a few friends. (F.Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. When he left her house he walked down Riverside Drive with __ feeling of satisfaction. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

21. The silence of the theatre behind him ended with a curious snapping sound, followed by __ heavy roaring of a rising crowd and __ interlaced clatter of many voices. The matinee was over. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

22. On the contrary, Amory felt an immense desire to give people __ sense of security. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

23. “That’s nothing to do with me,” Wade said, but __ persistent and continuous sound of the bell was alarming. (J.H. Chase)

24. But all the time I had __ seed of doubt at the back of my
mind. (D. du Maurier)

25. This time she had seen by the expression in his eyes, he was being sincere and he told herself, __ eyes of __man can’t lie. (J.H. Chase)

26. She stood in __ ancient hill village of Tarmes. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

27. Dick saw her with __ inevitable sense of disappointment. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

28. From his father Dick had learned __ somewhat conscious good manners of the young Southerner coming north after __ Civil War. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

29. That’s all our readers want: someone who used to be a teenage boy explaining to them __mindset of __ teenage boy. (M. Gayle)

30. As we walk hand in hand through __ noise and clamour of Leicester Square it feels like old times and I don’t want to let her go. (M. Gayle)

31. Vienna is __ city of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. (S. Sheldon)

32. __ offices of Candlelight Press were downtown in an old building on 34^th Street. (S. Sheldon)

33. That year, 1868, was __ beginning of Roffe and Sons. (S. Sheldon)

34. __ poetry of __ Middle Ages was her own passion, and she was to blame for feeding the child’s imagination on Knights and Ladies. (K. Saunders)

35. “And you’ve __ face of __ little angel. Quite a stepdaughter for Sidonia.” (K. Saunders)

36. He was aware of __ extraordinary sensation which he had never experienced before. __ feeling of rage that made him tremble violently took hold of him. (J.H. Chase)

37. I was allowed __ freedom of the house and garden.

38. He could have broken __ news of her father’s death over the telephone but she deserved more than that. (S. Sheldon)

39. Many research scientists are inspired by __ hope of curing diseases by genetic engineering.

40. Mrs. Speers was reminded of night calls to death and calamity when she was __ wife of a doctor. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

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