Exercise 6. Study the following sentences and decide whether the nouns ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are used generically or not; insert articles where necessary.

1. Self-culture is the true ideal for __ man. (O. Wilde)

2. Let us learn to show our friendship for __ man when he is alive and not after he is dead. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

3. How does __ woman manage to get to your age without being married? (H. Fielding)

4. This book consists of my recollections of __ man with whom I was thrown into close contact only at long intervals, and I have __ little knowledge of what happened to him in between. (W.S. Maugham)

5. I was a lay-figure, no use to __ man or __ beast. (D. du Maurier)

6. Would we never be together, he __ man and I __ woman, standing __ shoulder to __ shoulder, __hand in__ hand, with no gulf between us? (D. du Maurier)

7. It is summed up in a single word – __ Man. __ Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove __ Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. (G. Orwell)

8. Besides, I’ve heard that a girl can have more fun with __ man whom she knows she can never marry. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. __ woman would do a thing like that because she felt sympathetic – only __ man would do it because he felt responsible. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, __ man or __ woman. (F.Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. I never met __ man I’d marry. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. __ man who has money under one set of social institutions quite naturally can’t risk his family’s happiness by letting the clamour for another appear in his newspaper. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. I don’t think it matters much what happens to __ man or his systems, now or hereafter. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. It was impossible to keep anything quiet: particularly an association between __ man and __ woman. (J.H. Chase)

15. When __ woman has nothing to do, she can get into mischief just as quickly as any man who has nothing to do. (J.H. Chase)

16. The weakness of this profession is its attraction for __ man a little crippled and broken. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. “Oh, I think that’s fine for __ man,” she said quickly. “But for __ girl I think she ought to have lots of minor accomplishments and pass them on to her children.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. Once I knew __ man who fell in love with his nurse. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. Nicole was up in her head now, cool as cool, trying to collate the sentimentalities of her childhood, as deliberate as __ man getting drunk after battle. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. You used to say __ man knows things and when he stops knowing things he’s like anybody else. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

21. A figure detached itself from the black shape of a tree and he knew it was __ woman whom he had passed in the lobby coming out. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

22. With morphine he fell asleep; the doctor and Collis left and Baby waited with him until __ woman could arrive from the English nursing home. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

23. That trip to Spain – all it did was to make me nauseated by the sight of __ woman. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

24. Never tell a thing to __ woman till it’s done. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

25. It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes __ woman surround herself with life. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

26. But I don’t think it’s appropriate for __ man to parade around nude in front of his neighbours. (M. Gabot)

27. “Every time __ man tells me he’s a romantic, I want to scream,” she said. “All it means is that __ man has a romanticized view of you, and as soon as you become real and stop playing into his fantasy, he gets turned off. That’s what makes romantics dangerous. Stay away.” (C. Bushnell)

28. How does __ woman like you keep them in line? (S. Sheldon)

29. Miss Cameron has invaded the traditionally male turf of real estate developers and has proved that __ woman can outshine all of them. (S. Sheldon)

30. “All it lacks is __ man,” one of the lady guests said cattily. (S. Sheldon)

31. Someone once said that music reveals to __ man his hidden soul. (S. Sheldon)

32. He was over six feet tall, with the lean muscular body of __ man who kept himself in good physical condition. (S. Sheldon)

33. She was aware that she had seemingly very little to offer __ man. (S. Sheldon)

34. Now that Granny was out of the way, she was free to become __ real woman. (K. Saunders)

35. I remember Tufton saying that if __ man did just one brave action like that, you had to call him basically all right. (K. Saunders)

36. “__ man who’s not in uniform has no right to dress up.” (K. Saunders)

37. Kit happy and in love was __ man transformed – or rather, __ man restored, like the sun emerging from thick cloud. (K. Saunders)

38. Pa really was remarkable, she thought, for __ man past his ninetieth birthday. (K. Saunders)

39. __ man should make his own way in the world, if at all possible, and not depend upon his family for his means. (M. Gabot)

40. I would so love to have a chance to speak to you, __woman to__ woman. (M. Gabot)

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