Exercise 2. In the sentences below choose an appropriate underlined alternative; state whether the article determines the noun in the Genitive or Common Case.

1. There was a ruthlessness about her, a/ the killer’s instinct. (S. Sheldon)

2. Real estate development is a/ the man’s game. There is no place for women in it. (S. Sheldon)

3. He quickened his pace across the Sonnet Bridge and into a/ the President’s Court, only to charge straight into a shrivelled old don in a gown. (S. Fry)

4. I suppose it’s more in a/ - woman’s nature to sacrifice herself than in a/ the man’s. (W.S. Maugham)

5. Down in Spain and over in China they were murdering one another as usual, a/ the woman’s legs had been found in a railway waiting-room. (G. Orwell)

6. Rawdon must go away – go back to his regiment and naughty London, and not play with a/ the poor artless girl’s feelings.

7. It was always easy to explain to Italians about a/ the baby’s prior claims, which they all conceded without question.

8. Her hair was curled like a/ the baby’s.

9. “My father always told me that the way to a/ the man’s heart was through his stomach.” (S. Sheldon)

10. A/ The mother’s heart is a/ the child’s schoolroom. (H.W. Beecher)

11. A/ The bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch and a miserable dinner. (J. de La Bruyère)

12. I’m editor of a/ the top-selling women’s magazine. (M. Gayle)

13. A/ The person’s age is not dependent upon the number of years that have passed over his head, but on the number of colds that have passed through it. (Sh. W. Wynne)

14. An/ The Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination. (G.B. Shaw)

15. So I fell in love with a/ the rich attorney’s elderly ugly daughter. (W.S. Gilbert)

Exercise 3. Complete the following sentences, using the words in brackets and putting them into the right order.

1. I have ………………….. fond memory of this place. (a/many)

2. There’s no choice; ………………….. roads are blocked. (other/both/the)

3. You shouldn’t ask ………………….. question. (a/such)

4. He wasted ………………….. chances that we gave him. (the/all/many)

5. I’m now earning ………………….. amount I used to. (five times/the)

6. It’s ………………….. big challenge. (a/quite)

7. In fact, ………………….. people who came weren’t invited. (few/the)

8. That’s ………………….. thing we didn’t want to happen. (one/the)

9. Have you ever met …………………..? (stupid/so/boy/a)

10. I don’t think I’ve ever read ………………….. . (a/such/essay/brilliant)

11. It was just ………………….. to miss. (too/a/chance/good)

12. Do you realize ………………….. it is? (a/what/difficult/task)

13. I just don’t know ………………….. that is. (possibility/likely/a/how)

14. We mustn’t ignore ………………….. as this. (a/serious/as/threat)

15. It’s ………………….. if you can come early. (better/the/all)

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary.

1. … it [the hotel] had so bedraggled __ air that the houses on each side of it looked neat and clean.

2. We went a good deal many shops, adopting this principle at each one; and the consequence was that, by the time we had finished, we had as fine __ collection of boys with baskets following us around as __ heart could desire; and our final march down the middle of __ High Street, to the river, must have been as imposing __ spectacle as Marlow had seen for many __ long day. (J. K. Jerome)

3. She would have as great __ reputation as Duse if she had. (W.S. Maugham)

4. On the one hand they were pleased that their young protégé had made so great __ success, and on the other a trifle nettled that he should be on intimate terms with persons with whom their own relations had remained strictly formal. (W.S. Maugham)

5. No one could live as glamorous __ life as she used to make out in her column, and no boyfriend or husband could be as annoying as she makes out I am. (M. Gayle)

6. He took an immense amount of trouble to make himself agreeable to aging women, and it was not long before he was the ami de la maison, the household pet, in many __ imposing mansion. (W.S. Maugham)

7. It can make a lot of unpleasantness for __ great many people. (D. du Maurier)

8. Max was her choice, the word was her possession, she had written it with so great __ confidence on the fly-leaf of that book. (D. du Maurier)

9. __ good many people recognized her as she threaded her way through the crowd in Oxford Street. (W.S. Maugham)

10. My grandmother … as bad __ cook as you can be without actually being hazardous. (B. Bryson)

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1029