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- 09 Adjectives and adverbs
- 10 Prepositions
- 11 Conjunctions
- 12 Building longer sentences
- 13 Punctuation and capital letters
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Practice and progress
17.02Practice
Articles and nouns
15 exercises. They all belong to section 02. Write your answer on paper before you open it.
Read the rules for this topic first: Nouns, articles and plurals →
- ___ apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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An
- She works as ___ engineer in ___ Karachi.
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an … no article
- I saw ___ dog. ___ dog was barking loudly.
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a … The
- ___ Nile is ___ longest river in Africa.
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The … the
- He is ___ honest man with ___ university degree.
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an … a
- We went to ___ school by ___ bus.
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no article … no article (fixed phrases)
- Fix: I like the music very much.
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I like music very much.
- Fix: He gave me an useful advice.
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He gave me a useful piece of advice.
- Fix: She has many homeworks tonight.
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She has a lot of homework tonight.
- Fix: The furnitures are new.
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The furniture is new.
- Plural: box, baby, leaf, tomato
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boxes, babies, leaves, tomatoes
- Plural: man, tooth, person, criterion
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men, teeth, people, criteria
- Much or many? How ___ luggage do you have?
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much
- Few or little? I have very ___ money left.
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little
- Some or any? I do not have ___ questions.
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any