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The Use of Articles with Proper Nouns

Personal Names

Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary.

1. Now Rinaldo Pazzi, __ Pazzi of __ Pazzi, hating the government as much as his ancestor ever did, disgraced and out of fortune, listening for the whisper of the axe, came to this place to decide how beat to use a singular piece of luck. (Th. Harris)

2. Cordell came into the tack room brisk as a hangman, intravenous bottles under his arms, tubes dangling from them. “__ Dr Hannibal Lecter!” he said. “I wanted that mask of yours so badly for our club in Baltimore.” (Th. Harris)

3. I’m sure __ Ellinghams will be glad to have us on their yacht for Cowes and __ Bantocks always have a large party for Goodwood. (W.S. Maugham)

4. Isabel frowned slightly. I think she was beginning to have a notion that __ Larry who had entered the room a few hours before, though unchanged in appearance and seemingly as open and friendly as he had ever been, was not __ same Larry, so candid, easy, and gay, willful to her mind but delightful, that she had known in __ past. She had lost him before, and on seeing him again, taking him for __ old Larry, she had a feeling that, however altered the circumstances, he was still hers. (W.S. Maugham)

5. I came here when __ first Mrs. De Winter was a bride. (D. du Maurier)

6. “A little background first.” Doemling consulted his notes. “We knooowww Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania. His father was a count, title dating from the tenth century, his mother high-born Italian, __ Visconti…” (Th. Harris)

7. How did you get on with __ old Danvers? (D. du Maurier)

8. “No,” declared Tom emphatically, __ new Tom, clothed by Brooks, shod by Franks. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. __ young Gray Maturin was eager for him to take it. (W.S. Maugham)

10. He seemed all right again now, happy and cheerful, __ Maxim I knew and loved, and he began talking about Frank Crawley. (D. du Maurier)

11. Elliot’s manner, rather than his words, suggested that perhaps it was not quite the thing for __ late Chester Bradley to have left __ stately mansion and __ broad acres he had inherited to enter an office, but the fact that he had amassed a fortune at least partly compensated for it. (W.S. Maugham)

12. I was introduced to a stoutish, tall man with a red face who looked somewhat ill at ease in evening clothes. He was __ Dr Nelson, but at the moment that meant nothing to me. (W.S. Maugham)

13. I asked __ little Clarice about her. (D. du Maurier)

14. “Well, must go,” she said. “Must see what __ adventurous Iris has been up to.” (H.E. Bates)

15. I should have remembered __ name de Winter. I’ve never attended __ Mrs. de Winter in my life. (D. du Maurier)

16. __ Kitty of this morning faded; the soiled kimono rolled up and disappeared; the pouts, and rages, and tears all were washed away. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. __ Blaines were attached to no city. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. I am just ‘__ good old Kerry’ and all that rot. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. It was well past its first glory on the day __ curious Mrs Roger Fairboalt came to see __ beautiful Mrs Harold Piper. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)



20. “Doctor Baker? I don’t know __ Doctor Baker. There used to be a house called Rose Cottage near the church, but __ Mrs. Wilson lives there.” (D. du Maurier)

21. In 1916 he managed to get to Vienna under the impression that, if he did not make haste, __ great Freud would eventually succumb to an airplane bomb. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

22. In every store where she had ever traded she was whispered about as __ beautiful Mrs. Page. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

23. I wouldn’t be __ Rosalind you love. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

24. About a year and a half before, Doctor Dohmler had some vague correspondence with __ American gentleman living in Lausanne, __ Mr Devereux Warren, of __ Warren family of Chicago. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

25. They treated __ Warrens with respect – Dick gathered that their fortunes had something to do with a bank in Milan that had something to do with __ Warren fortunes. But __ Baby Warren wanted to talk to Dick, wanted to talk to him with the impetus that sent her out vagrantly toward all new men, as though she were on an inelastic tether and considered that she might as well get to the end of it as soon as possible. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

26. If it’s __ Mr. Abraham North, the one we know, well, if he was in Paris last night we weren’t aware of it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

27. I’ve finally met __ Mel, who wouldn’t know an IPO from IOU, a woman who might potentially be more interested in me than in my investment portfolio. (M. Gabot)

28. Absalom Widgett was a real old-school spy – __ James Bond of his day. He worked all over __ Middle East and __ Arabia. (H. Fielding)

29. How can a film as good as this have been written by __ boring old Shakespeare? (M. Gayle)

30. For no other reason than my own amusement I tell them I’m an off-duty policeman and that I’m searching for __ Nicola O’Connell. (M. Gayle)

31. It has not apparently occurred to her to wonder why __ Aunt Helen never gave me a key to her place. (M. Gabot)

32. His mother had been __ Roffe, and she had married Sir George Nichols, the third baronet. (S. Sheldon)

33. Experience had taught him that __ generous Hélène was __ dangerous Hélène. (S. Sheldon)

34. She wished that she understood Rhys better. She knew __ gregarious and public Rhys Williams; she wanted to meet __ private Rhys Williams, the self he kept hidden.(S. Sheldon)

35. In the village, it was the general opinion that __ poor Quin Randall had finally gone off his head, after years of being Not All There. (K. Saunders)

36. She wanted to know __ real Marius, hidden beneath the defensive layers of shame and fear. (K. Saunders)

37. The following Monday, Lara had a visitor.

“There’s __ Mr. O’Brian here to see you from the city Housing Commissioner’s office, Miss Cameron.” (S. Sheldon)

38. It was very sweet to her, to have __ cross old Mrs Dove on her side. (K. Saunders)

39. Just imagine __ fat Hamlet, for instance! (G. Orwell)

40. It was another person of course, molecularly every part of __ old Cartwright must have been replaced dozens of times since he had been the most beautiful person who ever walked the earth. And __ old Adrian who had loved him was not the same as __ Adrian who beheld him now. (S. Fry)

41. The butler came into the drawing room. “Excuse me, Mr. Adler, there’s a gentleman on the telephone for you. __ Lieutenant Mancini. Shall I…?” (S. Sheldon)

42. His thick hair was silver and his face was tanned olive from __ Umbrian sun, but she would have known him anywhere as __ Randall. (K. Saunders)

43. __ young Marmora was dancing with his mother. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

44. __ Oscar she assumed she knew – __ lady-killer, __ flirt, __ charmer – was reassembling himself in __ new image she barely understood. (K. Saunders)

45. __ absorbed and excited Gloria greeted her husband in the afternoon.

46. He thinks just because he’s __ Trent of __ Park Avenue Trents, he can trick people and use them for his own amusement and get away with it? (M. Gabot)

47. __ Kit in the photograph and __ real Kit merged into this one man. (K. Saunders)

48. Lilia confided to a friend that she liked __ Mr Kingcroft extremely, but that she was not exactly engaged to him.

49. I suppose that was __ Miss Fuller, of the Lansing, Illinois, Fullers. (M. Gabot)

50. __ unforgettable Fučik, his courage in the reign of terror, his heroism will endure through the ages. This photo shows __ smiling Fučik.

51. Suddenly one morning as she was looking down the alley of the Bottoms for the barm-man, she heard __ voice calling her. It was __ thin little Mrs. Anthony in brown velvet. (D.H. Lawrence)

52. And __ dog Balthazar following, laid the bone of one of the cutlets they had eaten at their feet.

 

Exercise 2. In some of the sentences below nouns denoting members of the family are used as proper nouns. Use an appropriate article.

1. “I must tell __ mother. __ mother, mother!” (W.S. Maugham)

2. __baby shifted her knees about – she was a compendium of all the discontented women who had loved Byron a hundred years before. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

3. “__ Father, you said to tell you immediately if we were near the sick boy.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. You see, the reason we decided to have it over here is because __ mother has been sick in a nursing home here and the whole clan is in Paris. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

5. “__ mother is perfect,” she prayed. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. That’s strange. Because when I was twelve __ Mother and __ Baby and I once spent a winter there. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. __ father says he would have shot him if he could have found out. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. “I miss __ Mother so, but she’s meeting me in Paris, Monday.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. I can forgive __ mother almost everything except the fact that in a sudden burst of religiosity toward the end, she left half of what remained to be spent in stained-glass windows and seminary endowments. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. When we were very small __ Mother used to pay Katie Simmons eighteen pence a week to take us out for walks in the afternoons. (G. Orwell)

 


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