Exercise 1. In the sentences below, only one of the underlined alternatives is appropriate. Cross out the one that is wrong.

1. London Underground/ The London Underground was close. (H. Fielding)

2. He had felt fully fit enough to bear Donald company for the long drive home in the Wolseley but Trefusis had insisted he go by air/ the air. (S. Fry)

3. A train/ the train would be best; it leaves every hour.

4. Since they built the bridge no one uses a ferry/ the ferry any more.

5. Next year you’ll be able to go by hovercraft; they are starting a new service. It’ll be much quicker than a boat/ the boat.

6. You’ll have no trouble getting home; a bus/ the bus doesn’t stop running till midnight.

7. There are many ways for tourists to get around London. If you don’t mind travelling in tunnels, take an underground/ the underground; if you like to see where you’re going, sit on the top deck of a bus/ the bus; and if you’re in a hurry, take a taxi/ the taxi.

8. We’re going on a day trip by coach/ the coach.

9. Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi/ the taxi. (G.B. Shaw)

10. The automobile/ Automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse. (J. Keats)

Forms of Entertainment

Ø When you are talking about someone going to enjoy a form of entertainment you use the definite article with the word for the form of entertainment. Words like this are: ‘cinema’ (AmE ‘movies’), ‘theatre’, ‘opera’, ‘'ballet’. Here we are not thinking of a particular performance of an opera or ballet, or a particular theatre building, but just of the form of entertainment.

· Let’s go to the movies.

· You have seen things. You have been to the opera, the ballet, the theatre.

Ø ‘Cinema’, ‘theatre’, ‘opera’, and ‘ballet’, as well as ‘dance’, ‘film’, and ‘television’, can be used as uncountable nouns with a zero article to refer to the art form.

· ...supreme artists of dance and theatre.

· ...a very fine piece of cinema.

· Television can be an art medium.

Exercise 1. In the sentences below, only one of the underlined alternatives is appropriate. Cross out the one that is wrong.

1. He was a supreme master of ballet/ a ballet.

2. She has returned to a theatre/ the theatre after an absence of five years.

3. Our lives are dominated by television/ a television.

4. This town is boring. What we need is a cinema/ the cinema.

5. “You’re dressed up.” – “Yes, we’re going to opera/ the opera.”

6. Film/ The film is both a respected art form and a form of mass entertainment.

7. “What can we do tonight?” – “Well, we could go to movies/ the movies.”

8. What the American public wants in theatre/ the theatre is a tragedy with a happy ending. (W. D. Howells)

9. He took them to the royal box at opera/ the opera as guests of a minor princess of the House of Windsor. (W.S. Maugham)

10. I haven’t been to an open-air theatre/ open-air theatre before.

11. She’s got a diploma in dance/ the dance from the Performing Arts Academy.

12. I’ve got some tickets for a ballet/ the ballet. Interested?

13. The government doesn’t give enough money to arts/ the arts.

14. I was no good at art/ the art at school. What about you?

15. Are you interested in cinema/ the cinema?

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