ENGLISH BC

                                                                                    

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.