Exercise 89. Use the proper article paying special attention to substantivized parts of speech.

1. Rich always had the most fun during the war. 2. It would be better to be in the study hall than out in cold. 3. It was always your ambition to be a nurse and help sick ever since you were a little child, wasn't it? 4. I knew the sky outside was definitely bright clear blue. 5. It was a nice day. The sun was shining. The sky was full of racing white clouds, and blue seemed to dazzle and promise.

6. There are times when weak can help strong. 7. It still felt like doing impossible. 8. "The doctor sees good in everyone," said the mother. 9. It was in Cape Town that Janny became aware of the enormous schism between blacks and whites. 10. Now, the only way black could exist was by slim, subservient on the surface but cun­ ning and clever beneath. 11. Their hair had turned bright red. 12. There were no doctor or medications for wounded, and food scarce. 13. And he was face to face with unbelievable. 14. This had seemed in anticipation like a dive into unknown, indeed into irrevocable. 15. Noah was a dry old man aged about ninety. Benjamin was quite a young man by the side of Noah. He was only

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seventy years old; a happy, kind-hearted old fellow who knew all sorts of amusing things for young and old.

Exercise 90. Comment on the use of articles with numerals.

1. My father threw a second raisin into the clearing... then a third... and a fourth... and a fifth. 2. "I speak for the syndicate, I see no reason for a third party." - "You will in a minute." 3. "Good enough," said Dick, looking round the large room that took up a third of a top story in the rickety chambers overlooking the Thames. 4. ...I have found a second shop in the village, a sort of ironmonger's, in the row of cottages behind the pub. 5. Some time just after my "Bad Patch" we met at a first night party. 6. Two (girls) were indeed young, about eleven and ten. The third was perhaps seventeen. 7. June walked straight up to her former friend, kissed her cheek, and the two settled down on a sofa never sat on since the hotel's foundation. 8. The letter bored him, and when it was followed the next day by another, and the day after by a third, he began to worry. 9. "Miss Luce will be a second mother to the children," she said. 10. I have never mentioned her to him though I may once have dropped a hint about a "first love". 11. At the bus stop two dark-haired women, arm in arm, complained loudly to each other about a third.

Exercise 91. Comment on the use of articles with nouns denoting names of nationalities and nations.

1. The English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has ever been in the wrong. 2. There were four tables there, his own, one from which breakfast was being cleared away and two occupied ones. At the nearest to him sat a family of father and mother and two elderly daughters - Germans. Beyond them, at the corner of the terrace, sat what were clearly an English mother and son. 3. The woman was about fifty-five. She had grey hair of a pretty tone-was sensibly but not fashionably dressed in a tweed coat and skirt - and had that comfortable self-possession which marks an Englishwoman used to much travelling abroad. 4. Biologically it may be found that there are few differences between an African Negro and a white Scandinavian. 5. "They are Danes," said Murphy. "I heard at breakfast. I must visit Denmark some day." 6. Although he had not spoken, I was positive he was not an American. 7. The British had expected a quick and easy war, no more than a moth pin-up opera­tion, and they began with a continent, light-hearted holiday spirit. 8. The cook, a Chinese, in white trousers, very dirty and ragged, and a thin white tunic, came to say that supper was ready. 9. The man came along and passed us. He was an Iraqui. 10. She wasn't a Swede, like her husband, but she might have been as far as looks

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went. 11. Whatever else you could say of Налу, he didn't fit the cliché about the Swiss being excessively cautious.

REVISION EXERCISES

Exercise 92. Use the proper article.

I. There was sound in hall. "Here's Felicity," said Мог. Felicity shut front door behind her and put her suitcase down at her feet. Her parents stood looking at her from door of dining-room. "Welcome home, dear," said Nan.

"Hello," said Felicity. She was fourteen, very thin and straight, and tall for her age. Skin of her face was very white but covered over in summer with thick scattering of golden freckles. She had her mother's eyes, gleaming blue, but filled with hazier and more dreamy light. Nan's hair was dark blond, Felicity's was fairer and straighter. In looks girl had none of her father.

II. Felicity took off her hat and threw it in direction of hall table. It fell on floor. Nan came forward, picking up hat, and kissed her on brow. "Hello, old thing," said Мог. Не shook her by shoul­ der.

"Hello, Daddy, "said Felicity. "Is Don here?"

"He isn't, dear. But he'll come tomorrow," said Nan.

"Would you like me to make you lunch, or have you had some?"

"I don't want anything to eat," said Felicity. She picked up her suitcase. "Don't bother, Daddy, I'll carry it up." She began to mount stairs. Her parents watched her in silence.

Moment later they heard her bedroom door shut with bang.

Exercise 93. Use the proper article.

He still had at fifty-two very good figure. As young man with great mass of curling chestnut hair, with wonderful skin and large deep blue eyes, straight nose and small ears, he had been best-looking actor on English stage. Only thing that slightly spoiled him was thinness of his mouth. He was just six foot tall and he had gallant bearing. It was his obvious beauty that had engaged him to go on stage rather than to become soldier like his father. Now his chestnut hair was very grey, and he wore it much shorter; his face had broadened and was good deal lined; his skin no longer had soft bloom of peach. But with his splendid eyes and his fine figure he was still very handsome man. Since his five years at war he had adopted military bearing so that if you had not known who he was you might have taken him for officer of high rank. He boasted that his weight had not changed since he was twenty, and for years, wet

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or fine, he had got up every morning at eight to put on shorts and sweater and have run round Regent's Park.

Exercise 94. H

Use the proper article.

It was bright spring day when ambulance brought Jan home. When they lifted her out strip of sky above narrow street seemed like no other strip of sky in world; afternoon light reflected from white wall of flats was light that had irradiated dream which she had often dreamed but doubted whether it would ever come true... When Doreen opened door to their bed-sitter, her heart was swollen with poignancy of coming home.

Air of flat was heavy and stale as it had always been but she breathed it with satisfaction. Everything was familiar to her, even smells were familiar. Ambulance men put her on her bed, wished her luck and went.

This was moment of which she had dreamed so often - moment for which she had longed with agonized, incessant longing of pris­oner who seeks to escape, from his cell. She was home and free, and today hyacinth Bart had brought her had broken first of its green sheaths revealing promise of bud within.

Exercise 95. Use the proper article.

1. There was no sign of life. Little white cottages covered with wild roses and ivy geraniums stood with doors open, yet no sign of man, woman, or child. No one seemed to have heard me drive up. Not sound!

2. I shut off engine and walked on. Below was tiny bay, nestling between two cliffs. Waves came booming over rocks, sea-gulfs were flying with wild, lonely cries. I stood there long time. Dusk was falling. I shook free from wild spell of this place, and asked myself where I would rest for this night. I was tired.

3. Would it be possible to stay night in St. Anthony and find out what kind of people live there? It would be good to stay in such silence, in such remoteness. I went back to cottages.

4. Rosy middle-aged woman, wearing print apron, was standing at door of pink cottage, looking at my car as though it were unnat­ural phenomenon.

"I wonder," I said, "If you could tell me where I could stay night?" '

V. Great bush of veronica was in bloom in garden, porch was smothered in geraniums, Canterbury bells stood beneath windows, and paths were lined with London pride.

VI. "Weil," said woman, "I've got nothing for dinner, sir, but eggs and cream, because we have no shops, and everything is brought from Gerrans in motor-car."

I told her that eggs and cream were only things I would dream of eating in St. Anthony in Roseland.

Exercise 96. H

Use the proper article. Pay attention to its place.

1. How good thing it was that he had made his decision. 2. I've got as great respect for him as anyone in college. 3. He wondered how long time had passed. He could not judge. 4. Then he found out that he could not stay in bed. He was in too great agony. 5. He was as much master of tactics as Brown and Christal. 6. I hope this isn't too great disappointment to you, May. 7. "It would make ev­eryone realize how great choice it was," said Roy. 8. It was unlikely that so large family would all go bankrupt 9. That was too easy way out. 10. Was he not simply criminal to contemplate union with so young girl? 11. It struck me how inexplicable thing was bravery. 12. But he was too cautious, too shrewd, too suspicious and too stubborn man to be pleased about it. 13. It ought to establish him in as strong position as we've reached so far. 14. To music she now gave all hours she could spare. 15. She closed both shutters. 16. It seemed to him amazing that such small woman should own such large car. 17. Many people said they wished they had my hair. 18. She was surprised to discover that she could be made so furiously angry by so small thing. 19. His memory was good and for so young man he had read largely. 20. He had given his guests as good time as he could. 21. Red-haired Robert read aloud fable of Fox and piece of cheese and Hilary wished, to boys' delight, that he could speak French with so pure accent. 22. You've not been as big fool as myself.

Exercise 97. Use the proper article.

I. He arrived there day before Christmas, day after his son was born.

Lisa was lying in big, double bed, very white and very weak. It had been surprisingly difficult birth, said Jeanne, who was there looking after her, but then Lisa was so small. Doctor had wanted her to go to hospital, but she had refused in case Hilary should come. And now he had come and was sitting beside bed holding her hand, while large mean tears rolled slowly down her cheek. "You must go," Jeanne had urged. "Germans will be here. You must go while there's still time," and Hilary had cried desperately that they must wrap Lisa in blanket, find car, get her out to England, and safety.

II. Michael slammed down telephone. Be reasonable, he thought, maybe they are out taking walk along beach and in ten minutes they'll come back and she'll pick up phone and call and ask him how it was and if he wouldn't like to come out and in time for dinner.

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He went into small room that she used as studio. Piece of paper with half-finished design in water colours was pinned to drawing- board.

He went back into neat, bright living-room... He had small desk in corner of room where he went over reports he brought back in evening and where he wrote his letters and kept his chequebooks. On it there was photograph of her - it was in colour and had been taken on lawn of her parents' house on bright simmer day. She was sitting on garden chair, book on her lap, her hands folded loosely over it... She was wearing pale blue blouse with short sleeves and long blue skirt and her arms were tanned and rounded, her face rose, her expression serious, almost questioning.

Exercise 98. Comment on the use of articles with personal names.

1. The Smollets accompanied the Edge worths as far as their gates. 2. The Elliots paid a few visits together in England. 3. "Born an Elliot - born a gentleman." So the vile phrase ran. 4. He sud­denly recognized the Mrs. Foliot whom they had been talking of at lunch. 5. Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom every one saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt down every night to say his prayers, and who longed to be good. 6. Perhaps, Jan thought, it all seems lovelier than it has ever seemed because I've seen a new Bart today, a Bart whose tenderness had quenched his passion. 7.-Where does the boy live? - At a certain Mrs. Orr's who has no connection with the school of any kind. 8. During her absence the house was occupied by a Miss Katti Bostock, another painter. 9. Besides Rain, Nan and Mrs. Prewett, there was a Mrs Kingsley, the wife of one of the Governors. 10. Then she said, "Can't we see the great Mr. Ansell?" 11. And so he is engaged to Mr. Ackroyd's niece, the charming Miss Flora? 12. But he could think of no classical parallel for Agness. She slipped between exam­ples. A kindly Medea, a Cleopatra with a sense of duty-these suggested her a little. 13. He added, "I feel rather like a Rip Van Winkle, saying that" 14. The man doesn't know a Rubens from a Rembrandt. 15. The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before. He put the Shelley back into his pocket and waited for them. 16. There was a man in the back yard of the next house doing something to one of the front wheels of an old Ford.

Exercise 99.

Use the proper article with personal names.

1. Browns were a fighting family. 2. Tom was the oldest child and even as a little baby he showed all the character of true Brown. 3. Bard Rogers was a good manager, but he was not Blackwell. 4. The last person to see her had been Agnes Dangerfield, who had

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seen her walking down Market Street 5. He added that he was ex­pecting Mr. Lowen on business. 6. A few minutes later another member entered the club, Mr. Graham Beresford. 7. The Lieutenant phoned downtown and then made arrangements with Captain Mooney. 8. "I think I have heard the name, yes," he said vaguely. "I once heard Mr. Van Aldin speak of him in very high terms." 9. First of all we must realize that Louise Leidner of all these years ago is essentially the same Louise Leidner of the present time, 10. I came out to Iraq with Mrs. Kelsey. 11. "The house is really sold, then?"-"Yes. To Major Somervell. Our new member." 12. Ramos hung up the phone, lit Benson and Hedges; he had never been able to stand Philippine tobacco.