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Exercises for Articles

This document contains exercises focused on the use of articles in English, including fill-in-the-blank tasks and sentence completion. It includes various examples where participants must choose between 'a', 'an', or 'the', as well as completing sentences with specific words. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and correct usage of articles in different contexts.

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Exercises for Articles

This document contains exercises focused on the use of articles in English, including fill-in-the-blank tasks and sentence completion. It includes various examples where participants must choose between 'a', 'an', or 'the', as well as completing sentences with specific words. The exercises aim to enhance understanding and correct usage of articles in different contexts.

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EXERCISES FOR ARTICLES

EX1: Write a or an in the spaces.

1. ....................unpaid bill

2. ....................DIY shop

3. ....................MA in Russian

4. ................... .Euro

5. ....................MiG fighter plane

6. ....................Olympic medal

7. .................... AGM

8. .....................U-turn

9. .....................heirloom

10. ...................NASA space launch

11. ...................UN decision

12. ...................SOS mcssage

13. ...................F grade

14. ...................hero

EX2: Choose one of the following words to complete

these sentences. Use the same word in each pair.

Add the or a/an in an appropriate place.


beach future past world
1. a. I think the best Australian wine is as good as any
in......................

b. As a child, Ethel would often daydream about

travelling forward in time

to............................................very different from the one


she lived in.

2. a. If we are elected, we will build our policies on the

simple belief that our purpose is to create

bright............................................for our children rather

than achieving short-term goals for ourselves.

b. Although our current hnancial position is worrying, we

have many ncw orders for our products

and......................................................is bright.

3. a. As I get older, I seem to

remember.............................................better than things

that happenvery recently.

b. At the age of 98, Johnson

has.................................................that goes back to the

start of the last century.

4. a. If you want to ger away from it all, you can take a

small boat to

deserted.............................................................................o

n one of the islands.

b. Dear Mum and Dad, We’re having a great holiday.

Theeather's wonderful and we're spending most of our

time on.............................. .
EX3: Underline the correct or more likely answer. If both
answers are possible, underline them both.

1. We get some strange requests in our shop. We had the customer/

a customer in the other day who vvanted to buy chocolate-covered


ants.

2. It sometimes seems that the individual/ an individual can have

little impact on the decisions that governments take.

3. The invention of a car/ the car is normally attributed to the

German engineer Gottlich Daimlcr.

4. The television/ A television has changed the way we ohtain

iníormation more than any other modern invention.

5. The campaign against smoking in public places argues that its

harmful effects are not conhned to the smoker/ a smoker.


EX4 Put in the or a/ an where necessary.
1. Jason’s father bought him bicycle that he had wanted
for his birthday.
2. ______Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from
____France to ______United States.
3. Rita is studying English and math this
semester.
4. ______judge asked witness to tell truth.
5. Please give me cup of coffee with cream and
sugar.
6. big books on table are for my history class.
7. No one in Spanish class knew correct
answer to Mrs Brown’s question.
8. When you go to store, please buy bottle of
chocolate milk and
dozen oranges.
9. There are only few seats left for tonight’s
musical show at university.
10. John and Mary went to school yesterday and then
studied in library before returning
home.
11. ________Lake Erie is one of five great Lakes in
North America.
12. On our trip to Spain, we crossed Atlantic Ocean.
13.__ Mount Rushmore is the site of magnificent
tribute to four great American presidents.
14. What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
15. David played basketball and baseball at
Boy’s club this year.
16. Rita plays violin and her sister plays guitar.
17. While we were in Alaska, we saw Eskimo
village.
18. Tom can’t go to movies tonight because he has to
write essay.
19. David attended Princeton University.
20. Harry has been admitted to________School of Medicine
at________mid western University.
EX5: Read this story and fill in the gaps with the
correct article: a/an, the or - (no article). For one
gap you will need a possessive adjective.
I first experienced terror when I was seven. My mother
lived in London, but after a brief liaison with
(1)..........soldier from the United States she became
pregnant and fled to (2)..........country. (At that time, fifty
years ago, it was considered shameful to be a single
parent.) A great aunt of hers lived in (3)................cottage
in (4)................North Wales, and there she was able to
bring me up in (5)..................peace, pretending that she
was a widow. (6)...............locals were all very friendly to
us and accepted us without question, and I had
(7)..............blissful childhood.
One day I arrived home from (8)............school to find
my mother clutching (9)............. telegram, in floods of
tears. (10)........... telegram informed her that her father -
my grandfather had died. His funeral would be in three
days and we had to go to London. I had never been
outside (11).........village and 1 was really excited at the
thought of going to (12)..............Capital City. So, two days
later, we boarded a train to London. It was
(13).............tirst time I had been on a train and I could
barely contain (14)................excitement of such an
adventure. Several hours later we arrived. I clutched my
mother’s hand as we stepped down from the train.
(15)..........................station was full of people rushing
home from (16).........................work and it was quite dark.
Now (17)................fear was starting to creep into my
mind. Then, suddenly, we were in (18)......................Street
outside the station. I had never seen so many people,
buses and cars, nor heard so much noise. I was terriíied. I
opened (19).....................mouth and the wail that I let
escape was one of (20)....................sheer terror.

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