- •Contents
- •Part 1 use of articles with common nouns
- •1. Class Nouns
- •I liked the room because there were flowers in it.
- •I have brought you some flowers.
- •I have got the magazine.
- •2. Change the nouns into the plural
- •2. Nouns of Material
- •I do wish we had not opened the door of the wrong room.
- •In a fortnight I got a long letter, which I considered odd.
- •1. Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Fill in the articles or "some" where necessary
- •3. Abstract Nouns
- •Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Part 2 use of articles with proper nouns
- •1. Names of Persons
- •If you are going West may I come with you? I want to see Aunt Emily and Uncle Lawrence.
- •I met Robert's father.
- •Fill in the articles where necessary
- •2. Geographical Names
- •3. Names of Hotels, Ships, Newspapers, Magazines, Universities, Airport, Railway stations, etc
- •4. Names of Cardinal Points
- •5. Names of Months and Days
- •Part 3 use of articles with nouns in some set expressions
- •1. The Use of the Indefinite Articles with Nouns in Set Expressions
- •2. The Use of the Definite Article with Nouns in Set Expressions
- •3. Nouns in Set Expression Used Without an Article
- •1. Fill in the articles where necessary
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Give English for:
- •Part 4 use of articles in some syntactical relations
- •1. The Use of Articles with Predicative Nouns
- •2. The Use of Articles with Nouns in Apposition.
- •I want to introduce you to Comrades b. And d., great friends of mine.
- •3. Place of the Article
- •It was as black a house inside as out side.
- •I've never heard of such a thing.
- •It took us half an hour to get there.
- •1. Fill in the article where necessary
- •2. Translate into English:
- •It was evening. The river was before them.
- •It is easier to work by day than at night.
- •2. The use of articles with names of seasons
- •3. The use of articles with the nouns school, college, bed, prison, jail, church, hospital, market
- •I knew he was badly ill, so I softly drew the chair to the bed and sat down.
- •4. The use of articles with the noun town
- •I want to go the town where I was born.
- •5. The use of articles with the names of meals
- •6. The use of articles with names of language
- •A) nouns day, night, morning, evening part 1 Choose the right variant:
- •Part 2 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Translate into English:
- •D) names of meals part 1 Fill in the articles where necessary:
- •Part 2 Translate into English:
- •Part 3 Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Part 6 use of articles with nouns modified by certain adjectives,pronouns and numerals
- •1. Most
- •It's a most difficult problem.
- •2. Few, a few, the few; little, a little, the little
- •3. Two, the two, three, the three, etc
- •I ate two pears. He pressed me to have a third pear but I refused.
- •I rang the bell, but nobody answered it, so I had to ring a second time.
- •I am thirsty, I should like another cup of tea.
- •Fill in the articles where necessary: a) most
- •B) few, little
- •C) second, third, etc.
- •D) another or the other
- •E) a number, the number
- •Part 7 the final tests Fill in the articles where necessary
- •Fill in the articles where necessary in the following extract
- •Fill in the required articles for all kinds of the nouns in the following text:
I liked the room because there were flowers in it.
If the idea of number is implied the noun is preceded
by the pronoun some.
I have brought you some flowers.
2) with a predicative noun, denoting the object belonging to a certain class.
Miss Sharp's father was an artist.
In the plural neither the article nor the pronoun " some" is used.
They are good children, no doubt.
3) when the noun is used in a general sense.
The article has the meaning of "every".
A drowning man catches at a straw.
In the plural neither the article nor the pronoun some is used.
Real friends should have everything in common.
4) when the indefinite article preserves its old original meaning of "one".
A stitch in time saves nine.
This meaning is found with nouns denoting" time"," measure", and "weight", the numerals "hundred", "thousand", "million" and the nouns "dozen", "score".
A week or two passed.
He seems to have half a dozen languages at his finger-tips.
b). The use of the definite article with class nouns.
Class nouns are used with the definite article:
1) when the noun denotes an object or objects, which the speaker singles out from all the objects of a given class.
How did you like the play?
I have got the magazine.
2) when the noun denotes a thing unique (the sun, the moon, the universe) or a class.
The sun was getting warmer.
The indefinite article can be used when we mean a certain aspect, state of the sun, the moon, the sky. In this case an attribute is used.
A pearl-white moon smiles through the green trees.
3) with nouns in a generic sense.
The tiger has always had the reputation of being a man eater.
The telephone was invented in the 19th century.
The tragedy and the comedy first appeared in Greece.
A noun in a generic sense denotes the whole class.
Compare:
Conan Doyle is a master of the detective story.
(The detective story is regarded as a certain genre.) A detective story helps to while away the time.
(Every or any detective story is meant).
The noun "woman" in a generic sense is used with the definite article or without an article.
Woman is man's helpmate.
He had always been interested in that mysterious being - the woman.
4) The definite article is used:
1) with nouns modified by adjectives in the superlative degree.
Miss Fox had the softest voice that ever was heard.
2) with nouns in word-groups the first component of which is "some",
"many"," none"," most" and the second noun with the preposition of.
Most of the gentlemen looked both angry and uncomfortable.
3) with nouns modified by the pronoun "same" and the adjectives "wrong",
(не тот), "right" (тот), "very" (именно тот, тот самый).