Supply articles for the nouns modified by attributive infinitives wherever necessary.
1. She felt herself yielding to ... blinding impulse to run screaming from the building. 2. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have ... orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. 3. However, that is not ... point to discuss. 4. He had not yet had ... opportunity to test his judgement and, anyway, the judgement was his own responsibility. 5. I have ... right to ask him now because I have had to do the same sort of things myself. 6. I tried to breathe, but ... effort to inhale knotted my chest tighter, forcing breath out instead of in. 7. Catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered ... engagement to play golf at his club. 8. Tired with.... desire to escape, she hesitated. 9. He began to read, giving the stranger ... opportunity to recover himself. 10. He felt ... need to talk that, with him, was the sign that there had just been much danger. 11. When she saw him, so slight, with his hectic flush and his blue eyes, so charmingly boyish, she felt a sudden pang and made ... attempt to get up.
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1. He went into ... house by ... back door and sneaked up ... stairs as though he had something to hide. 2. We'll never get him ... second time. 3. ... silent house gave them ... feeling of being there without leave. 4. "Oh," he said, "you'd have to go back through all ... records, all … way back to ... end of ... eighteenth century even, to make any kind of ... guess." 5. "What do you mean?" But what he meant was quite obvious. ... quickly beating heart gave him away. 6. It was ... third time that year he had fallen asleep driving at night. 7. He was glad that he had been born in ... most important city of the United States. 8. The light in ... next room came from … lamp hanging from ... ceiling. 9. But one way or ... other it’s not bothering me. 10. Before ... first year had passed I had saved ... thousand dollars and we had lived in comfort. 11. I couldn't see ... face that had been staring at him from that window. 12. He hurled ... gramophone on ... floor. 13. By ... stair was ... notice: "Office". … office consisted of ... glass window, firmly closed and … printed card: "Press Bell". 14. It was ... lovely July evening, and ... air was delicate with ... scent of the pinewoods. 15. ... waiters were reappearing with ... trays and … napkins and ... flaskes of wines. 16. It took him some to get used to ... darkness of ... forest again. 17. ... girl I had been shadowing turned ... knob and opened ... door. 18. She was leaning against ... wall of … baggage-shed near ...end of ... wharf. 19. He rubbed his hands together in ... pleased manner and called to hiswife. 20. Of all ... houses which had received him in … fall of 1862, Miss Pittypat's was ... only house into which he could enter in 1863. 21. Mr. Hungerton was ... most tactless person upon earth. 22. "Now I'm going to get … cup of tea for both of us," Doreen said. 23. I was manager of ... Crawford Street branch of the Bank. 24. He hoped it was ... main building, burning to ... ground. 25. The woman who ran it was very cheerful and ... only person we knew in Montreux. 26. I thought she was ... most wonderful creature I had ever seen. 27. ... following evening the Mole, who had taken things very easy all day, was sitting on ... bank fishing. 28. At this minute Miss Griffith saw ... acquaintance on ... other side of ... street and uttering ... word of recognition she leaped across ... road. 29. I read the dedication written in ... curious slanting hand. 30. ... strangest thingof all was, that not ... soul in ... house, except me, noticed her habits, or seemed to marvel at them. 31. It just seems to be ... wrong way to go about it. 32. With ... cry of anger Gisburne cut him down. 33. Mrs. Macandrew shared ... common opinion of her sex that ... man is always … brute to leave ... woman who is attached to him, but that ... woman is much to blame if he does. 34.I sketched in fancy with ... absent mind ... profile, ... sombre eye, ... high-bridged nose, ... scornful upper lip. 35. He thought he detected in her voice ... note of apprehension. 36. I can't tell you coherently ... events of ... next twenty-four hours, believe me. 37. ... vision of ... consumptive son faded and in its stead aroused ... picture of myself. 38. "Oh, that's nonsense," said Roy good-humouredly, with ... tone of ... doctor who is trying to persuade ... child to have its throat examined. 39. "What about ... previous week? Could she have slipped the letter in the box?" 40. And they brought ... pineapples and ... huge bunches of ... bananas. 41. They did not even have to have ... same colour of eyes. 42. "I think it's a success," she said. "... main thing is that it's right."
43. ... latter letters are as tender and as delightful as … first, but ...tone was different. 44. Bart opened ... packet of ... cigarettes and offered one to Magda. 45. ... house faced ... garden. Above ... drawing-room were ... two bedrooms and above these ... two rooms that could be made into ... day and ... night nursery. 46. In ... house there was nothing but ... poor worn bed with ... ragged mosquito net, ... rickety chair, and ... washstand. 47. They were all seized in their homes at ... hour the attack started. 48. Not marrying ... young lady, of whom you have probably heard, was merely ... last straw. 49. Of course, it's ... very good thing for ... man to be ... gentleman, but it is better that he should be competent and hard-working. 50. He had come to ... conclusion that it could be nothing serious that prevented Edward from coming home. 51. I tremble with fear when I think of ... danger I have escaped. 52. The grade school was ... large wooden building, old, ugly and dangerous, but ... high school was ... pride of ... town. 53. I know ... very half-acre where it is grown. 54. I mean, instead of the books being ... usual story affairs they'd as likely as not be about Arabia. 55. He chose ... wrong minute to say that. 56. This was ... opportunity that Mr. Warburton could never resist. 57. She stood by ... fire and stared into it before sitting down in ... chair that Wilfred had just vacated. 58. The girls felt that ... theft had been reported to ... Corona police. 59. ... voice that answered him was not only ... masculine voice but also ... irritated, weary, despairing voice, that of ... man who was rapidly coming to ... conclusion, that he could be spending all Saturday afternoon answering idiotic inquiries. 60. ... Ryan family had made its way by weight of numbers and noise to a position just below where Chilla was. 61. From behind ... maid who opened ... door darted ... lovely girl of nine who shrieked "Daddy!" and flew up, struggling like ... fish, into his arms. 62. It was ... great landlocked harbour big enough to hold ... fleet of battleships. 63. She liked ... idea of guiding my virgin steps on ... hard road of letters. 64. Do you mean to say you don't want ... money, ... big money, ... money running into millions? 65. It was ... deep, comfortable room, with books lining … walls to ... ceiling. 66. ... actions speak louder than words.
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Supplementary task. Comment on the ideas expressed in sentences 49, 66.
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Fill in the blanks with articles. Write out a few sentences containing nouns modified by different kinds of attributes (i.e. by attributes expressed by adjectives, participle phrases or attributive clauses). Explain the use of articles with these nouns.
One Afternoon in 1939
This is ... constant story that I keep telling my daughter who is four years old. She gets something from it and wants to hear it again and again.
“Once when I was ... little kid, just your age, my mother and father took me on ... picnic to ...Mount Rainier. We drove up there in ... old car and saw ... deer standing in ... middle of ... road.
"We came to ... meadow where there was ... snow in … shadows of ... trees and ... snow in ... places where … sun didn’t shine.
"There were ... flowers growing in ... meadowand they looked beautiful. In ... middle of ... meadow there was ... huge round rock and ... Daddy walked overto … rock and found ... hole in ... center of it and looked inside. ... rock was hollow like … small room.
"... Daddy crawled inside … rock and sat there staring out at ... blue sky and … wild flowers. …Daddy really liked that rock and pretended that it was ... house and we played inside ... rock all ... afternoon.
"He got some smaller rocks and took them inside ... big rock. He pretended that ... smaller rocks were ... stove and ... furniture and he cooked ... meal, using ... wild flowers for food."
That's ... end of ... story. She has heard it ... thirty or forty times and always wants to hear it again. I think she uses it as ... kind of ... door to ... discovery of her father when he was ... child and her contemporary.
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