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with names of shops:
I'll get the card at Smith's.
Can you go to Boots for me?
with years:
1948 was a wonderful year.
Do you remember 1995?
With uncountable nouns:
Rice is the main food in Asia.
Milk is often added to tea in England.
War is destructive.
with the names of individual mountains, lakes and islands:
Mount McKinley is the highest mountain in Alaska.
She lives near Lake Windermere.
Have you visited Long Island?
with most names of towns, streets, stations and airports:
Victoria Station is in the centre of London.
Can you direct me to Bond Street?
She lives in Florence.
They're flying from Heathrow.
in some fixed expressions, for example:
by car at school
by train at work
by air at University
on foot in church
on holiday in prison
on air (in broadcasting) in bed
12 Explain the use of articles in the following text.
A first-time visit can be educational as well as confusing. Most drilling rigs are large and
noisy and, at times, the people who work on them perform actions that don’t make much sense to an
uninitiated observer. A drilling rig has many pieces of equipment and most of it is huge. But a rig
has only one purpose: to drill a hole in the ground. Although the rig itself is big, the hole it drills is
usually not very big — usually less than a foot (30 centimetres) in diameter by the time it reaches
final depth. The skinny hole it drills, however, can be deep: often thousands of feet or hundreds of
metres. The hole’s purpose is to tap an oil and gas reservoir, which more often than not lies buried
deeply in the earth.
13 Fill in the articles where necessary.
….Caspian Sea, ….Texas, ….Gulf of Mexico, ….deepest operational platform, …. Western
Africa,….Everest, ….earth, …Lake Erie, .…last face.
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