DETERMINERS
EXERCISES
A .Complete the following sentences with the
correct determiners from the brackets:
1.My brother went to the
library and borrowed --------------------------------------(lot/lot of) books to read.
2.-----------------------------------------
(All /All of) the
students have to learn English.
3. There are two good
films on television tonight but I’ve seen--------------------------------(both
them/them both )
4.We went out last night
and visited ------------------------------------- (a few/few) friends.
5.Someone has eaten--------------------------------(the
all/all the)
chocolates in the fridge.
6.-----------------------------------
(Neither / neither of)
the books is what I want.
7.You can buy them in-------------------
(any/any of)
bookshop.
8.I ate--------------------------------
(few/a few)
biscuits and drank a cup of tea.
9.---------------------------------------(few/a few) people mind
helping others if they can do it without any trouble.
10.
10. There are---------------------------------
(plenty/plenty of)
things you can do here.
11.
-----------------------------(All/the)
animals care for their young in different ways.
12.
Charles Darwin said that------------------------------
(few/all) living
things struggle for food and to cope with------------------------ (a/the) environment.
13.
----------------------------------- (most/Many) rain water
falls on-------------------------- (a/the) ground and seeps through---------------------------
(some/the) layers
of soil and gravel to give us underground water.
14.
----------------------------- (Few/Many) road accidents take
place during---------------------------- (a/ a little) fog as drivers cannot
see properly.
15.
---------------------------------------------
(Most/all)
electrical appliances should be checked regularly to see that they are in
order.
ARTICLES
B. Cross out the articles where they are not
needed:
1. A molecule is the smallest a particle of a substance that
can exist and still keep the properties of the whole.
2. For example, if you break down a molecule of
sugar the elements would not have the characteristics of the sugar- its taste or its
colour, among other things.
3. In some substances, the molecules are very simple. In others the
molecules have a thousands of the
atoms arranged in a complicated pattern.
4. In some gases, such as the helium and the neon, a molecule consists of only the one atom.
5. Some molecules contain the two or more atoms of the same kind. A
molecule of the water,
for example, is made up of a
two atoms of the hydrogen
and one of oxygen.
