Exercise 8. Insert articles where necessary.

1. She told him in __ answer to his polite inquiry __ whole story and gave him her opinion of __ travel agency, __ railway company, and __ general inefficiency of __ human race. (W.S. Maugham)

2. If I have given __ reader __ impression that Elliot Templeton was a despicable character I have done him __ injustice. (W.S. Maugham)

3. It could easily give me __ opportunity to break into Aitken’s class, and sooner or later set up on my own. (J.H. Chase)

4. I never had __ remotest idea. She kept it __ secret from everyone, even Danny. (D. du Maurier)

5. One of her most amiable traits was that she was never affronted by __ naked truth. (W.S. Maugham)

6. I haven’t __ slightest idea, Mrs. Danvers. (D. du Maurier)

7. I had __ impression that he was not entirely pleased with the turn in the events. (D. du Maurier)

8. It’s not __ slightest use your losing your temper with me. (D. du Maurier)

9. He was __ admirable host and he took __ delight in displaying his virtuosity. (W.S. Maugham)

10. Are you going to keep __ house? (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

11. Brendan didn’t pay her __ slightest bit of attention no matter how much she smiled in his direction. (M. Gayle)

12. Perhaps you will do me __ honour of accompanying me to the card room? (S. Fry)

13. As with a jigsaw puzzle, what I hoped to do was to familiarize myself with the picture on the box lid and then proceed to put the pieces together one section at__ time. (S. Grafton)

14. You’re to nurse it Nelly: to feed it with sugar and milk, and take care of it __day and__ night. (E. Bronte)

15. And of Wuthering Heights Catherine was thinking as she listened; that is, if she thought or listened at all; but she had the vague, distant look I mentioned before, which expressed no recognition of material things either by__ ear or__ eye. (E. Bronte)

16. But he still knew a diamond when he saw one, and during the week before her birthday he had taken__ occasion, on his way into the Poultry or his way out therefrom, to dally a little before the greater jewellers where one got, if not one’s money worth, at least a certain cachet with the goods. (John Galsworthy)

17. I was marking time until I had a chance to talk to Lonnie, who Ida Ruth kept assuring me was temporarily out of__ service. (S. Grafton)

18. On many __ night I have rolled over and wished he was just half the Leon that he used to be: tender and attentive and sexy and a little wild. (Terry McMillan)

19. ‘Oh, I have nothing,’ I replied, thinking it best to speak __ truth at once. (E. Bronte)

20. Rosemary stood beside Tommy Barban – he was in __ particularly scornful mood and there seemed to be some special stimulus working upon him. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

21. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in__ leaf. (E. Bronte)

22. He died true to his character: drunk as __ lord. (E. Bronte)

23. Linton sank back on his pillow, and fell into __ brown study. (E. Bronte)

24. __day and __ night he was watching and patiently enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason could inflict… (E. Bronte)

25. He subdued it, however; heard her saying, ‘__ truth, __ whole truth, and nothing but __ truth,’ and looked up. (John Galsworthy)

26. I knew that you could not keep up an acquaintance with your cousin, without being brought into__ contact with him. (E. Bronte)

27. From __ dinner to__ tea she would lie in her breeze-rocked cradle, doing nothing except singing old songs – my nursery lore – to herself, or watching the birds, joint tenants, feed and entice their young ones to fly. (E. Bronte)

28. I yielded, in the faint hope that Linton himself might prove, by his reception of us, how little of the tale was founded on __ fact. (E. Bronte)

29. While Michael was refastening the lock of the park door in the afternoon, I got __ possession of the key. (E. Bronte)

30. The place was filled with sunshine, and the door stood wide open; but nobody seemed at __ hand. (E. Bronte)

31. You know, I was wild after she died; and eternally, from__ dawn to __ dawn, praying her to return to me – her spirit – I have a strong faith in ghosts. (E. Bronte)

32. I knew no living thing in__ flesh and__ blood was by. (E. Bronte)

33. How they managed together, I can’t tell. I fancy he fretted a great deal, and moaned __ night and __ day; and she had precious little rest, one could guess by her white face, and heavy eyes. (E. Bronte)

34. If he could only give tangible proof enough of his determination to let __ bygones be__ bygones, and to do all in his power to please her, why should she not come back to him? (John Galsworthy)

35. Unwatched by Mrs. Grundy, unhindered by permanent domestics, she could receive lame ducks at any hour of __day or__ night, and not seldom had a duck without studio of its own made use of June’s. (John Galsworthy)

36. And they had gone __ hand in__ hand. (John Galsworthy)

37. Winifred was at __ heart so deeply undecided… (John Galsworthy)

38. The issue had been so satisfactory on the whole that it was advisable to tell James, who never failed to say __ day after__ day that he didn’t know about Winifred’s affair, he couldn’t tell. (John Galsworthy)

39. Of course, there’s nothing very much at__ present, but there will be. (John Galsworthy)

40. I’m as good __ man as you. (John Galsworthy)

41. ‘No one, Uncle,’ replied Francie with __ perfect truth. (John Galsworthy)

42. Stay in __ close touch. (Jack Higgins)

43. Her grandfather had gone__ bankrupt in the lace-market at __ time when so many lace-manufacturers were ruined in Nottingham. (D.H. Lawrence)

44. ‘Only dare!’ she said in __ loud, ringing voice. (D.H. Lawrence)

45. Then he caught__ sight of the Highland bonnet with its ribbons. (D.H. Lawrence)

46. Never forgetting that by__ birth she was a gentlewoman, she cultivated her aristocratic tastes and feelings, so that when __ opportunity came she might be ready to take the place from which poverty now excluded her. (Louisa May Alcott)

47. ‘My lady,’ as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at __ heart, had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. (Louisa May Alcott)

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