Determiners articles (with answer key)

be+erminers: articles

1-    oJ an gocs only wi+h a :ingular noun ( when wc 1* mcntion somcthing )

weusea before a consonant and an before a vowel. BUT it depends onthe pronunciation of the following word,

notthespelling ( aschoot, an elepharrt, a university, an honest man. a harpy, ahero, a uniform, a hol ido/, a European...)

2-    wi+h a plural or an mcountablc noun wc iec some (an amount of )

3-    thc go es with both singular and plural and withuncountable nouns (when we know which person/thing we mean-

----I bought a radio and a CD player, but the CD player didn t werk )

4-    O ( zero article) is used to cxprcss a generał mcaning, or generalisa+ions

A- Writc the missing word: ( A . Ar\ .The or O (if no word i: miting !!) ; u;c the numeral

Complete (1)......story about (2)______theft of (3)......rrver barge:

this is (4) ______true story about(5) ......man who chose (6)......worst possible time for his

crime. It happened in London in (7) ------summer of (8) ______1972. (9) ...... man stole (10)

------barge on (11).... River Thames (in case you donł know, (12)......barge is (13)......river

boat used for carrying goods).

(14)......owner of (15).... barge soon discovered that it was missing and immediately informed

(16).... police so that they could look for it. Normally (17)______rń/er is quite (18) ______busy

place, and it would be difficuht to find what you were looking for. On this day, however, there

was (19) ______dock strike. and so there was onły (20) ______barge on (21) ......rrver. (22)

......thief was quickiy found and arrested.

B- Wri+c the mi::ing word: ( A . Ar\ .The or O (if no word i: mi::inq !!); You may u:c " £om the numeral ” one". +oo:

A silly mistake

This is also (1)______true story. It shows how (2)------plans can sometimes go wrong and

how (3)______people can make silly mistakes. This too happened quite(4)______longtime

ago—in(5)_____1979. in fact. (6)______scene was (7)______old people's home in (8)______smali

town in (9)......north of England called (10)......Otley.

(11).... owners of (12)------home wanted to put (13)______fencearound it to make it morę

prh/ate.

(14)......work began soon after (15).. ..Christmas when (16).... workmen arrived in

(17)________lorry with planks of ivood which they put up around (18)______building.

"It was (19)______very nice fence," said (20) ....of (21) ....old people. But there was (22)

......problem.

(23)......workmen forgot to leave (24)-------.gap fcr (25).....lorry' to drive out through.

They had to come back (26)......next day to knock down part of (27)_______fence .

"What (28)_________silly mistake", said another resident." It was so funny we had to laugh.

In fact it was (29)......... most fui weVe had for (30)________long time."

Complete this corwcrsation bctwccn thcsc friends, AAartin and Anna.

Writc the missing words ( A , An ,The or O (if no word is missing !!1. _You may usc "some". too:_

Martin: "I think we ought to book (1)......holiday. Where shall we go?"

Anna: "What about (2)______Scotland? Ithink Edinburgh is (3)______beautiful dty. I love

going there."

AAartin: "(4) .... weather might not be very good. We went there at (5)______Easter.and it was

freezing,

Remem ber. "

Anna: ” We could have (6)......walkalong (7)______Prince’s Street and upto (8)______ castle.

And I

warłedto goto (9)______Royal Scottish AAuseum, but we never found time".

AAartin: " Cant we go somewhere different? "

Anna: “ We could spend some time in (10)------HighJands, I suppose".

AAartin: ” When I go on (11)......holiday, I wart to do something morę relaxing than

dimbing(12)......

mountains. And I find it pretty borinęf'.

Anna: ” How can you say such(13)______thing? "

AAartin: "Actually, I'd prefer somewhere warmer and by (14)______sea. Ithink (15)______Corfu

would

be nice. We might get (16)______sunshinethere I just want to lie on (17)______beach".

Anna: ” Martin, you know, Ih\ not at all keen on (18)......beach holidays".

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Solutions:

1- the

2- the

3- a

4- a

5- a

6- the

7- the

8- 0 9-the

10- the

11- a

12- the

13- a

14- the

15- the

16- the

17- the

18- a

19- a___

20- one

21- the

22- the

B:

1-a

2-0

3-0

4-a	7-an	10-0	13-a	16-0 / the /	19-a	22-a / one	25-the
5- 0 6- the	3-a 9-the	11- the 12- the	14- the 15- 0	some 17- a 18- the	20- one 21- the	23- the 24- a	26- the 27- the

28-a

29- the*

30- a

the most" fun= super1ative

c

1- a

2- 0 3-a

4-the	7-0	10-the	13-a	16-0 / some
5-0	3-the	11-0	14-the	17-a
6-a	9-the	12-0	15-0	18-0