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Exercise 9. In the following sentences ‘the’ is missing in one or more cases. Write ‘the’ where necessary.

1. In this business you have to take rough with smooth. You are the best actress in England. (W.S. Maugham)

2. Fiercely she bit down hard on her bottom lip. She wasn’t being vindictive, she was simply exercising her right to have justice, avenging wrong which had been done to her, and neither were her motives totally selfish. (P. Jordan)

3. It was almost inevitable that inevitable should happen. (W.S. Maugham)

4. He got a good deal of satisfaction out of letting his sister see with her own eyes how familiar he was with illustrious and fashionable. (W.S. Maugham)

5. I drifted to the border-line of unconscious and slipped over it at last. (D. du Maurier)

6. Amory was far from being contented. He missed the place he had won at St. Regis’s, being known and admired, yet Princeton stimulated him… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. All diamonds look big in rough. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. I hate dark. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. She had a mature distrust of trivial, facile and vulgar. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. Rosemary accepted it as merely a new facet of fabulous, which for two years had filled her life. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. Unknown yielded her up. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. Lanier, not sure what had happened, but suspecting dark and unprecedented, asked… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. She could go outside, into unknown, and try to escape from Rhys, or she could stay here and try to fight him. (S. Sheldon)

14. A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. You do not strike me as the kind of woman who seeks out predictable. (H. Fielding)

 

Exercise 10. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.

Political correctness has made and continues to make a significant impact on our language as we are all encouraged, for the common ………….. (1), to make increasing use of euphemistic paraphrase. We should turn our backs on expressions like ‘the ………….. (2)’ and embrace ‘………….. (3) economically disadvantaged.’ ‘The ………….. (4) challenged’ is recommended in place of ‘the blind’; ‘the chronically …………..(5) of hearing’ is suggested as a substitute for ‘the …………..(6)’. This is all very well and not asking the ………….. (7) of us. It is rather when the trend is taken to the ………….. (8) and ‘the ………….. (9)’ find themselves referred to as ‘the follically challenged’ that there is a risk of things getting out of hand. ‘Out with the ………….. (10) and in with the new’ may have its virtue as a saying, but so does ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.’

 

Article Use with Certain Groups of Nouns

Material Nouns

Exercise 1. In the following sentences insert articles where necessary and comment on their functions.

1. It is commonly accepted today that __ brown bread is good for you.

2. When they came to __ coffee he asked her whether he might offer her __ liqueur. (W.S. Maugham)



3. I drank __ brandy and put __ glass back on the silver salver. (D. du Maurier)

4. “Fetch Alphonse,” Pop said. “I daresay he wouldn’t say no to __ brandy. I want one too.” (H.E. Bates)

5. He would dearly have loved __ cheese of __ better, more imaginative kind than mouse-trap, but the budget wouldn’t run to it. “You’ll have beautiful cheeses in Brittany.” (H.E. Bates)

6. Give me __ whisky, and I mean, put some whisky in the glass. (J.H. Chase)

7. I drove fast to Slim’s bar where I could examine the papers and have __ sandwich and __ beer before deciding on __ plan of campaign. (J.H. Chase)

8. He ordered __ double whiskey on the rocks, lit a cigar and stretched out his short fat legs. (J.H. Chase)

9. After the inevitable delay __ whiskey was placed before him, and he savoured his first drink of the day. (J.H. Chase)

10. “What’ll you have?” “__ Scotch, I guess,” Jaffe said and fumbled for a cigarette. “That’s a hell of a shirt you’re wearing.” (J.H. Chase)

11. Afterward he went to the bar of the Crillon and drank __ small coffee and two fingers of gin. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. Many parties at long tables blurred into one great party and ate __ fondue – a peculiarly indigestible form of Welsh rarebit, mitigated by hot spiced wine. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. Her least favourite thing is __ sushi. (M. Gayle)

14. At the Glion funicular he checked his bicycle and took __ small beer on the terrace of the station buffet. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. “__ good wine is like a woman,” he said. (S. Fry)

16. He ate __ stewed bully, hunk of bread, and __ soap-like cheese with a sort of dog gratitude for __ warmth, which was humiliating. He scarcely even resented __ humiliation.

17. Elizabeth took a sip of __ hot coffee. (S. Sheldon)

18. “Could you dash down to the machine, and get me __ black coffee?” (K. Saunders)

19. “Where shall I put __ wine?” said Adrian, looking around for a free space. (S. Fry)

20. “How about __ nice veal and ham pie? Spot of Chutney?” (S. Fry)

21. She wondered whether he guesses that she was worth fifty thousand pounds and her father worth perhaps more. She was sorry when they had finished and Agnes had thanked God for __ beef.

22. All our towels are made of __ Egyptian cotton.

23. Heaven sends us __ good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. (D. Garrick)

24. Dinner at the Huntercombes’ possessed ‘only two dramatic features – __ wine was a farce and the food a tragedy’. (A. Powell)

25. The dinner was: __ cold tinned ham and cold hard mince pies. (N. Mitford)

26. [England] is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex. I mean, __ hard cheese will kill you, but __ soft cheese will kill you in seconds. (J. Mason)

27. O Lord, Sir – when a heroine goes mad she always goes into __ white satin. (R. B. Sheridan)

28. It was mimeographed in __ dark brown ink on buff-coloured foolscap. It was not merely noticeable, it was unquestionably the nastiest-looking bit of work that ever dropped on to a breakfast-table. (C. Cockburn)

29. You come downstairs in the morning and smell __ fresh coffee.

30. __ beer is, quite rightly, Britain’s favourite Friday night drink.

 

Names of Meals

Exercise 1. In the following sentences insert articles where necessary and comment on their functions.

1. Sometimes they were asked to parties on Sunday, dinner at midday or __ cold, sumptuous supper, and he seemed to think it natural that they should go together and come away together. (W.S. Maugham)

2. The best way of disposing of them of course was to give them __ dinner and take them to a play, but that was often difficult when he was engaged every evening for three weeks ahead… (W.S. Maugham)

3. I was having a wash and a brush-up before starting out to go to __ luncheon Elliot had invited me to, when they rang up from the desk to say that he was below. (W.S. Maugham)

4. Elliot was of opinion that __ breakfast was a meal that you should share only with total strangers. (W.S. Maugham)

5. Frith wanted to know whether to keep __ breakfast hot for Maxim. (D. du Maurier)

6. “Thank you for __ lovely dinner.” (H. Fielding)

7. The occasion was __ dinner they tendered the Divers upon Dick’s return. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. “I missed Valentine’s Day so I’m taking Bridget for __ Valentine’s dinner,” said Mark abruptly. (H. Fielding)

9. But before she could answer, Mrs Bradley, attentive to her duties as __ hostess, drew me to her with some remark and before I could disengage myself __ dinner was at __ end. (W.S. Maugham)

10. They had just arrived at __ dinner for a European fashion designer who was trying to stage a comeback in New York. (C. Bushnell)

11. I’d like it very much if you’d come to __ bachelor dinner. And also to__ tea Friday at Jebby West’s. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

12. Pop rushed at once to pick him up but Ma said __ breakfast was ready. (H.E. Bates)

13. I will give the orders about __ lunch. (D. du Maurier)

14. Dick was taking Rosemary to __ tea from which Nicole and the Norths had resigned in order to do the things Abe had left undone till the last. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. During__ dinner the twilight faltered into dusk, and later it was a starry dark outside. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. I arranged to give __ luncheon for them. (W.S. Maugham)

17. __ dinner, Mademoiselle Dupont had suggested, should be at eight-thirty. (H.E. Bates)

18. This must be __ cold lunch that was put out in the dining-room yesterday and I had not eaten. (D. du Maurier)

19. “Wouldn’t you like to see it, Clifford? I’ve asked them to__ tea for you to see it.” (D.H. Lawrence)

20. Frith says Maxim was down to __ early breakfast. (D. du Maurier)

21. It was May when he next found her. __ luncheon in Zurich was a council of caution. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

22. Unkind people asserted that everything in his apartment was for sale and that after he had invited wealthy Americans for __ excellent lunch, with vintage wines, one or two of his valuable drawings would disappear. (W.S. Maugham)

23. I could imagine the little crowd at __ Saturday lunch. (D. du Maurier)

24. __ dinner tomorrow night is your birthday party and don’t forget it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

25. The Perry’s are giving __ dinner and theatre party and Miles won’t be here – he’s flying to South Bend to see the Notre Dame – California game. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

26. It was __ champagne dinner from the start. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

27. __ lunch was a hurried, nervous meal. (D. du Maurier)

28. “You can have __ nice cosy tea up in your room, my Lady, and Mrs. Flint will be more comfortable than if Sir Clifford was there,” said Mrs. Bolton. (D.H. Lawrence)

29. It’s not enough to buy __ dinner at __ Larue’s. (W.S. Maugham)

30. __ wedding breakfast, of almost pre-war magnificence, was spread on the big table in the Randalls’ kitchen. (K. Saunders)

31. You took a girl out for __ nice romantic dinner, maybe a carriage ride through Central Park. (M. Gabot)

32. __ tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. (S. Fry)

33. We ordered __ big supper to be sent up to the room about two o’clock. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

34. Last summer he was at __ small dinner in the Hamptons. (C. Bushnell)

35. __ breakfast was Olivia’s favourite meal: coffee and something piggy like a muffin. (H. Fielding)

36. John Hammond arranged __ luncheon with Bill Rohan. (S. Sheldon)

37. “I’ve prepared __ midnight supper just for the two of us…” (S. Sheldon)

38. __ luncheon over, Dick returned to his villa. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

39. I had seen us walking together, arms linked, to the sea, coming back rather late and tires and happy to __ cold lunch, alone, and sitting afterwards under that chestnut tree I could see from the library window. (D. du Maurier)

40. Mr. Big went out alone to __ business dinner. (C. Bushnell)

 

Periods of Time

Exercise 1. In the following sentences insert articles where necessary and comment on their functions.

1. It was __ cold fall day, with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

2. It was __ dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with __ grey-turning, gold-turning light. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

3. With __ gray dawn came the newspapers and the early network news. (Th. Harris)

4. During __ afternoon I had a long, lonely session with my thoughts. (J.H. Chase)

5. One single electric bulb burned above the reception desk in the gloom of __ early evening and this was flickering madly up and down. (H.E. Bates)

6. It was __ warm beautiful night. (W.S. Maugham)

7. He did not leave her till __ chink of light through __ drawn blind warned them that __ day had broken. (W.S. Maugham)

8. __ evening was already turning to__ dusk. (P. Jordan)

9. We were up before__ dawn and we didn’t stop work till __ nightfall. (W.S. Maugham)

10. There was __ warmth about it I had never known before, due to __ night itself, so still and clear, to the flowers beneath the pictures, to our own laughter as we hovered on the wide stone stairs. (D. du Maurier)

11. It was __ wonderful, warm, starry night with __ moon lighting up all the rhododendron bushes. (H. Fielding)

12. __ night came and the last tourists were shooed out of the Palazzo Vecchio. (Th. Harris)

13. “Firth,” I said, coming into the library on __ summer morning, my arms full of lilac. (D. du Maurier)

14. Then the day afterwards she would be up at __ dawn driving to London. (D. du Maurier)

15. Like Lieutenant Canby, I marched off unwillingly into __ suddenly insufficient night. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. As he spoke the car became one of many once again, __ dusk had fallen without my noticing it. (D. du Maurier)

17. Five days later, in the first cool of __ late afternoon, Jeffrey picked up an oat chair and sent it crashing through his own front window. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. It was __ night when the long silver transport pulled up to the barn at Muscrat Farm. (Th. Harris)

19. Starling was suddenly a thirty-three-year-old woman, alone, with a ruined civil service career and no shotgun, standing in a forest at __ night. (Th. Harris)

20. I got to the office after nine o’clock __ following morning. (J.H. Chase)

21. Outside __ dawn was lightening __ sky. (P. Jordan)

22. It was __ night still, but __ stars were pale in __ sky, and __ day was at hand. (W.S. Maugham)

23. Finally there came __ night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn. (G. Orwell)

24. As she turned into the sidewalk under __ gathering autumn dusk she assumed that disapproving, faintly unpleasant expression that almost all successful women of forty wear on the street. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

25. Frank Crawley had come over to lunch, and we were all three of us looking forward to __ peaceful afternoon under the chestnut tree. (D. du Maurier)

26. __ evening after__ evening the senior singing had drifted over the campus in melancholy beauty. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

27. She had passed __ worrying night. (J.H. Chase)

28. It was __ evening in May. (K. Saunders)

29. __ false dawn sent the sky passing through the tall French windows. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

30. __ night had drawn the colour from her face – she was pale as pale now, she was a white carnation left after a dance. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

31. This is really __ first night of __ real spring. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

32. It was __ late afternoon when they wound up the discussion as to what Dick should do. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

33. He had maneuvered her to the door: for an instant __ violet dawn fell shrilly upon his pink mask and upon the linen sack that supported his moustache. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

34. It was already __ summer dusk and lights were breaking out in spasms along the rigging of the Margin. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

35. __ fine night streamed away on either side. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

36. It was __ high noon when I woke. (W.S. Maugham)

37. In __ fine spring morning the inhibitions of the male world disappeared and she reasoned as gaily as a flower. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

38. They drank the bottle of wine while a faint wind rocked the pine-needle and the sensuous heat of __ early afternoon made blinding freckles on the chequered luncheon cloth. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

39. Eventually, as __ dawn was beginning to dilute the darkness over the sea, she drifted into confused dreams. (H. Fielding)

40. It’s __ morning of my last day at Teen Scene. (M. Gayle)

41. It’s __ late afternoon on Monday and I’m at work. (M. Gayle)

42. __ night fell quickly. (H. Fielding)

43. I decided I’d rather have __ early night. (K. Saunders)

44. There was someone who walked through the woods by__ night, someone tall and slim. (D. du Maurier)

45. When __ fatal morning arrived, early in March, and the campus became a document in hysteria, he slid smoothly into Cottage with Alec Connage and watched his suddenly neurotic class with much wonder. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

46. __ night will descend. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

47. Three days later he telephoned me that he was leaving __ next morning and he’d take me to her house that night. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

48. Both their eyes filled with tears and they whispered love there under __ broad night. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

49. Pa and his sons were unshaven and hollow-eyed. They had sat through __ horrible night of listening to Lily’s screams. (K. Saunders)

50. __ dawn was breaking over the sea. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

51. It made an excitement for __ afternoon. (D. du Maurier)

52. At __ noon he ran into a crowd in the Biltmore bar. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

53. Then in a taxi they rode along cheerless streets through __ dank November night. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

54. On __ following Monday morning, as Lara drove toward the building site, she sensed that something was wrong. (S. Sheldon)

55. It was __ midnight when he finished. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

56. This was __ last night Amory ever saw Eleanor. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

57. After that with all lights burning, two sleepy, shivering boys read to each other from The New Machiavelli, until __ dawn came up out of Witherspoon Hall. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

58. As __ hot afternoon went shrill and terrible with her flight he had forgotten the children. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

59. But I’m surprised to find you indoors on __ Saturday night. (K. Saunders)

60. Afterwards, they lay a little way apart, listening as __ night fell upon the house. (K. Saunders)

 


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