Exercise 2. Insert articles where 'necessary. (Articles with class nouns.

)
1. Not a word was spoken in the parlour. (Caldwelt) 2. The room itself
was filling up, so was a staircase. (Snow) 3. I think that man's life is worth saving,
whoever it belongs to. (Shaw) 4. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was
clear and the sun rose bright and beautiful. (Dickens) 5. He made them provide
not one car, but half a dozen. (Snow) 6. The compass was invented in ancient
China. 7. Not a word was spoken, not a sound was made. (Dickens) 8. The sky
outside the window was already dark, the secretaries had gone home, all was
quiet. (Snow) 9. Edward remained a week at the cottage. (Austen) 10. I tell you, he's
as brave as a man can reasonably be.

Exercise 4. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with nouns modified

by attributes in post-position.)
1. The man of whom I speak is a low pantomime actor. 2. Excuse me
now, I have to see the man who's in trouble... (Galsworthy) 3. People familiar with
these moors often miss their road on such evenings. (E. Bronte) 4. He listened
attentively to a great many stories she told him about the amiable and handsome
daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man and lived
in the country. (Dickens) 5. I always think there's something rather cold and
cheerless about a house that lacks woman's touch. (Maugham)

Exercise 6. (A) Insert articles or some where necessary. (Articles with

nouns- of material.)
1. We sipped some tea so weak that it tasted like metal against the teeth.
(Snow)2. You will be wishing to have some tea after your journey, I'm thinking.
(Shaw)3. George said that we must take a rug, a lamp, some soap, a brush and
a comb, a tooth-brush, some tooth-powder and a couple of big towels for
bathing. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. The children of his age seldom have natural pleasure
in soap and water. (E. Bronte) 5. He bought some cold beef, and some ham,
and some French bread and butter, and came back with his pockets pretty
heavily laden. (Dickens) 6. There were two bottles of wine, a plate of oranges...
with powdered sugar. (Dickens) 7. Here, have some champagne, I quite forgot to
offer

8. She made coffee. (Murdoch) 9. Coffee without bread could never

honestly serve as supper. (Saroyan) 10. The rest of us had finished eating, but
Cave had cut himself another slice of cheese. (Snow) 11. Mrs. Leek... frankly
gave way to soft tears while eating bread-and-butter, (Bennett) 12. You've caught
cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have some gruel to drive it out. (E.
Bronte) 13. She did not answer, but her face was hard and pale as a stone.
(Galsworthy)

Exercise 8. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with abstract nouns.)

1. We both appreciate simplicity. (Du Maurier) 2. In less than a week
Cowperwood knew the financial condition of Messrs. Waterman as well as they
did, better, to a dollar. (Dreiser) 3. It is such weary, weary work. (Dickens) 4.
He [White] had a comfortable feeling of working alone in a large empty
building, a feeling of peace and a complete privacy. (Wilson) 5. I've reason to
believe she [Fleur] has never properly got over the feeling she used to have.
(Galsworthy)you any, or would you rather have some tea? (Murdoch)

Exercise 10. insert articles where necessary. (Articles with names of

persons.)
1. Margaret was talking to the Osbaldistons. (Snow) 2. In the dim light
streaming down the stairs from behind her, he scarcely recognised the Lily he
had known. (Lindsay) 3. barbaric Bertie got no hint whatever that he was barbaric.
(Bennett) 4. father and daughter appeared at last. (Wells) 5. Gradman is here,
darling, and mother, and Aunt Winifred, and Kit and Michael. Is there anyone
you would like to see? (Galsworthy)

Exercise 12. Insert articles where necessary. (Articles with geographical

names.)
1. After the tour in the Austrian Alps they had gone to Hotel Splendide at
Montreux, in order to enjoy for a day or two the charms of [?] Lake of Geneva.
(Bennett) 2. Dusk was already falling on a noble curve of the Thames. (Bennett) 3. I
hear he's off to Central Africa. (Bennett) A. In Ivanhoe Walter Scott describes
England of the Middle Ages. 5. Capetown is in South Africa. 6. In the heart of
Central Asia lies Khoresm, a small fertile area in the sea of sand. 7. The
prospect ends... in little hills that come nearly to the sea; rudiments, these, of the
Atlas Mountains. (Shaw) 8. "We've been touring the world... We tried South
America...We lasted three days in Australia..." "Have you ever been to the
States?" (Amis) 9. Michael looked quizzically at his parent. Did he quite
understand the England of to-day? (Galsworthy)

Exercise 24. Insert articles where necessary. (Special cases.)

(A) Day, night, morning, evening.
1. Outside it was night. (Murdoch) 2. It was a warm summer night. (Snow) 3.
The night outside seemed very quiet. (Greene) 4. It was a foggy evening in
November. (Murdoch) 5. During the evening we played innumerable games of
piquet... (Maugham) 6. It was evening, and he was walking across the school
grounds on his way home. (Saroyan) 7. He wondered what hour it was. The sun
seemed to indicate late morning... (Greene) 8. I think it's going to be a fine
morning, after all. (Shaw) 9. The morning was cold and sharp and sunny. (Greene)
10. It is early morning. (Shaw)

Exercise 26. Insert articles where necessary.

(B) Names of seasons.
1. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. (Wilde) 2. You see, the winter
was a very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy bread with.
(Wilde) 3. It was a very dark evening for summer. (E. Bronte) 4. The summer
drew to the end, and early autumn. (E. Bronte) 5. I wondered if autumn would
come upon us two months before her time.
Exercise 28. Insert articles where necessary.
(C) Bed, school, prison, town.
1. It was eleven o'clock. Annette was still in bed. (Murdoch) 2. Stefan, who
had been sitting on the edge of the bed, came near to her and smiled for the first
time. (Murdoch) 3. May comb was an old town. (Lee) 4. Dolores said nothing all
the way to the town. (/. Shaw) 5. Yes, he and my brother had been to school
together. (Snow) 6. Before that she had taught history in girls' school. (Murdoch) 7.
The school was not a particularly good one. (Conan Doyle) 8. I never knew a
lawyer yet who didn't threaten to put me in prison sooner or later. (Shaw) 9.
Steger next visited a county jail, close on to five o'clock, when it was already
dark. (Dreiser) 10. In all probability he was already in the town.

Exercise 30. Insert articles where necessary.

(D) Names of meals.
1. He said he had letters to write and if I would allow him, would remain
in his room till dinner was ready. (Jerome K. Jerome) 2. He came in one morning
when I was having breakfast on the terrace of the hotel and introduced himself.
(Maugham) 3. I saw to it that he had a good dinner. (Jerome K. Jerome) 4. We had a
cold bacon for lunch that day. There was not much of it. I took it to be the bacon
we had not eaten for breakfast. But on a clean dish with parsley it looked rather
neat. (Jerome K. Jerome) 5. Mr. Clay settled back in his chair, savoring his drink,
expecting a good dinner. (/. Shaw) 6. The dinner was very sound. (Bennett) 7. Come
and have tea on the deck. (Bennett) 8. They had supper in silence. (Murdoch) 9. A
little expedition down the river was delightful, and a little room overlooking the
river into which they were shown for dinner was delightful. (Dickens) 10. In a tiny
dining-room, we were having the excellent dinner, cooked by Mary
Osbaldiston-.. (Snow)