The Use of Articles with Proper Names

Exercise 1. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of hotels, streets, ships, and newspapers)

1. She nodded ____ command to ____ footman, and they drove off westward, down ____ Strand, and so into ____ little side street by ____ Charing Cross. (Bennett)

2. I am going to Folkestone to-day, and shall stay at ____ Metropole. (Bennett)

3. They were excited because they had been dining with ____ editor of ____ Times, and had been given ____ glimpse of next day’s paper. (Snow)

4. She sat in her superb private drawing room at ____ Hotel Cecil.

5. ____ boys loved him because he told them that ____ Navy had borrowed him from ____ U.S. Army just in time to blow taps on ____ Maine as she was sinking, and he remained long after everyone including ___ captain had abandoned ____ ship. (Wilson)

6. He began to walk very rapidly up towards ____ Trafalgar Square. (Greene)

7. He went out and ate ____ ices at ____ pastry-cook’s shop in ____ Charing Cross; tried ____ new coat in ____ Pall Mall; and called for ____ Captain Cannon, played eleven games at ____ billiards with ____ captain, and returned to ____ Russell Square. (Thackeray)

8. ____ street was empty, unlighted save by ____ reflection from ____ Grandlieu Street behind them … (Faulkner)

9. In 1905 ____ revolt broke out on ____ Potemkin, one of ____ battleships of ____ Black Sea Fleet.

10. Yet, in ____ bright drawing room in ____ Lord North Street, all he was thinking of … was what ____ Telegraph, ____ Guardian, the popular press, would say next day. (Snow)

Exercise 2. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified by proper nouns)

1. I often go to ____ Pushkin Theatre.

2. I am very fond of ____ Pushkin’s short tragedies.

3. ____ Tretyakov gallery was founded nearly ____ century ago by Pavel Tretyakov. ____ Tretyakov’s devotion to ____ art and his indefatigable efforts had ____ magnificent results and furthered ____ development of ____ Russian painting.

4. I am ____ medical student and have held ____ post of house surgeon at one of ____ London hospitals for some time. (Marryat)

5. ____ Fox apartment had ____ spacious old-fashioned feeling.

6. Towards ____ end of ____ year 1913 several young students living in Moscow founded ____ small group known as ____ Student’s Drama Studio. It was from that group that ____ Vakhtangov Theatre sprang. Vakhtangov was ____ tireless innovator. Some of Vakhtangov’s pupils became ____ capable producers.

7. ____ Pulkovo Observatory is over ____ hundred years old.

8. He had known all ____ pretty Montjoy sisters scattered over ____ Society, but of them all Diana was ____ youngest, ____ prettiest, most tasteful and wittiest … (Galsworthy)

Exercise 3. Supply the required articles for nouns in the following sentences, paying special attention to miscellaneous proper names.

1. “Do you know where he’s staying?” “At ____ Bristol.”

2. Mr. Robinson arrived at ____ London airport from ____ New York yesterday on his way to ____ Soviet Union.

3. Usually he used to read ____ few articles out of ____ “Time” or ____ “Newsweek.”

4. When last heard from he was at ____ University of Berlin.

5. “What’s ____ French for ‘factory’?” “Usine.”

6. They drove up to ____ main terminal — ____ brightly lighted, air-conditioned Taj-Mahal.

7. He had applied for this assistantship in ____ answer to ____ advertisement in ____ “Lancet”.

8. Soon after that he was expelled from ____ Harward University.

9. ____ “Friedrich Weber” was ____ freighter sailing from ____ Humburg to ____ Colombo.

10. On their way to ____ Savoy Hotel he refused to tell Tom what would happen there.

11. Schiller, ____ most popular dramatist in ____ Germany, was forced to make ____ translations from ____ French in order to earn ____ money enough to live on.

12. David said in ____ gruff voice that he never read ____ “News of the World”.

13. Gracie was ____ student at ____ London University.

14. ____ liner “Queen Elizabeth” sails at 8 a.m. this morning, on ____ schedule.

15. ____ lady talked ____ bad French at ____ top of her voice.

16. There’s ____ good film at ____ Regal Cinema this week.