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Exercise 1. Comment on the function of articles in the following sentences.

1. Meg looked very like a rose herself, for all that was best and sweetest in heart and soul seemed to bloom into her face that day, making it fair and tender, with a charm more beautiful than beauty. Neither silk, lace, nor orange flowers would she have. (Louisa May Alcott)

2. Let a man do a man’s job. (Terry McMillan)

3. Then you’re convinced that the wrong man was executed. (Patricia D. Cornwell)

4. The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbours, as they were. (Louisa May Alcott)

5. He thought she was the most attractive human creature he had ever seen. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse. The Heights were Heathcliff’s land, and he was reproving the poacher. (E. Bronte)

7. ‘Oh, fie, silly child!’ I exclaimed. ‘If you had any griefs, you’d be ashamed to waste a tear on this little contrariety.’ (E. Bronte)

8. His life is not worth a farthing, and I won’t spend a farthing on him. (E. Bronte)

9. Many rooks, high up, came cawing home across the softly-woven sky. (D.H. Lawrence)

10. There began a battle between the husband and wifea fearful, bloody battle that ended only with the death of one. (D.H. Lawrence)

11. The sun was going down. Every open evening, the hills of Derbyshire were blazed over with red sunset. (D.H. Lawrence)

12. Much of the area was a flat, chalky gray contrasting sharply with the surrounding gray-green hills and a sky of pale blue. (S. Grafton)

13. It was another world from the river he knew, under that remote cool light; a world into which man had not entered, and unreal world, like some strange shore sighted by discovery. (John Galsworthy)

14. A man and woman came to the table. Mr. and Mrs. Business: dark suits, briefcases, smooth hair, round glasses. (Robert B. Parker)

15. I should be in a curious taking if I surrendered my heart to that young person, and the daughter turned out a second edition of the mother! (E. Bronte)

16. But there was nothing to be gained by infuriating William with reprimand, so he said gently: ‘Heaven and hell is what I deal in. Virtue and sin, forgiveness and punishment, good and evil, I’m afraid I can’t shut up about them.’ (Ken Follett)

17. She would never accept the hospitality of a stranger, never leave her door unlocked at night, never take kindness at face value. (Ken Follett)

18. Jo did not cry, though she was very near it once, and was only saved from a demonstration by the consciousness that Laurie was staring fixedly at her, with a comical mixture of merriment and emotion in his wicked black eyes. (Louisa May Alcott)

19. It’s human nature. (S. Grafton)

20. ‘I am going to be a beauty, aren’t I, Danny?’ (D. du Maurier)

21. On his way out, he paused to embrace Kit, with a tenderness that made Gladys’s eyes prickle, and brushed his lips against Lily’s white forehead. (K. Saunders)



22. He was a tall, thin man with a rather foxy face, the kind of face that seems to lack eyelashes. He walked with a stiff, brittle dignity, as if his head were on a wooden spring. (D.H. Lawrence)

23. I know he couldn’t love a Linton; and yet he’d be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations; avarice is growing with him a besetting sin. (E. Bronte)

24. About twelve o’clock, that night, was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven months’ child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar. (E. Bronte)

25. And, as though he had uttered words of profound consolation, he was silent, eating brains with a fork and a piece of bread, and swallowing the bread. (John Galsworthy)

26. She knew William was at the dipping-hole, and it was the dread of her life lest he should get drowned. (D.H. Lawrence)

27. ‘Go out of the house!’ she commanded him in fury. (D.H. Lawrence)

28. In a towering rage, he sat down. (D.H. Lawrence)

29. Something in her proud, honourable soul had crystallized out hard as rock. (D.H. Lawrence)

30. His earliest recollection was of great branches of lilac, standing in white jars, and they filled the house with a wistful, poignant smell. (D. du Maurier)

31. At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton. (E. Bronte)

32. We talked little during the drive, for Lucy seemed to be fascinated by the winter weather. (Patricia D. Cornwell)

33. I was weary and felt a dull, implacable sadness that I did not have the strength to chase away. (Patricia D. Cornwell)

34. ‘Well, sir,’ returned I, ‘I hope you’ll consider that Mrs Heathcliff is accustomed to be looked after and waited on; and that she has been brought up like an only daughter, whom everyone was ready to serve.’ (E. Bronte)

35. She stated the obvious without emotion. (Patricia D. Cornwell)

36. Come, give me a true history of the event. (E. Bronte)

37. Susan was the daughter of a minister and had abandoned religion long ago. (Patricia D. Cornwell)

38. Among the last to arrive were the leading citizens: the butcher, the baker, two leather tanners, two smiths, the cutler and the fletcher, all with their wives. (Ken Follett)

39. When I was prior of St-John-in-the-Forest I never had an escort, and I am still alive. (Ken Follett)

40. In France, which after all is the only civilized country in the world, Isabel would marry Gray without thinking twice about it. (W.S. Maugham)

41. I noticed on that occasion how much selfishness there is even in a love like Mr Linton’s, when he so regretted Catherine’s blessed release! (E. Bronte)

42. The children were put to bed at seven o’clock. (D.H. Lawrence)

43. He pitched onto the bed and rolled over on his face with a deadly fear that he was going mad. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

44. After dinner they went out on to the terrace to have coffee. (John Galsworthy)

45. ‘He’s safe and I’m free,’ she answered: ‘I should feel well – but,’ she continued with a bitterness she couldn’t conceal, ‘you have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!’ (E. Bronte)

46. He took first honours in English Literature at Trinity College. (Jack Higgins)

47. Can you wait until evening? (R.B. Parker)

48. ‘This is the only barber shop in the neighbourhood,’ the barber said. (S. Sheldon)

49. I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. (E. Bronte)

50. We had lunch at a quarter to nine. (D. du Maurier)

51. It was late afternoon by the time his cart was finally filled and he headed back toward the ghetto. (S. Sheldon)

52. I have fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you. (E. Bronte)

53. Breakfast was hot gruel with salt. (Ken Follett)

54. It was midnight. (C. Bushnell)

55. It was a windy four-o’clock night with the leaves on the Champs-Elysees singing and falling, thin and wild. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)


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