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IV. Underline all the articles in the following piece of
writing. Describe their function from the grammatical point of
view. Render this passage into Ukrainian. Analyze means of
rendering English articles into Ukrainian.
A 12-year-old boy got mad at his parents Friday night
because they refused to let him go fishing on to the Colorado River
with relatives. So, while his parents were distracted during a
barbecue with eight adult friends, he slipped away from his sister
and three brothers, snatched the keys to a Volkswagen Beetle and
drove off in one of his parent’s four cars, prompting fears that he
had been kidnapped.

V. Point out the difference in the lexical meaning
expressed by the definite and the indefinite articles signalizing
respectively the rheme and the theme in the sentences below.
Pay attention to the place which the rhematic and thematic
nouns occupy in their Ukrainians variants.
1. As he passed the bronze statue of the Four moors a
man’s figure emerged from an old house on the opposite side of
shipping basing (academic writing).
2. The man approached unsteadily along the water side,
shouting an English song (fiction writing).
3. The bundle moved, and answered something in a low,
moaning voice (fiction writing).
4. As they passed by a gateway of the Uffizi, he crossed the
road and stopped down at a dark bundle that was lying against
the railings (fiction writing).
5. It was an early morning of a sunny day (fiction
writing).
6. The morning after a certain night on which Soames at
last asserted his rights and acted like a man he breakfasted
alone(fiction writing).
7. I’ve written a lot of them down in a book for fear of
losing them (fiction writing).

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