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Working in Pair, Decide Which of the Following Items in Italics is Definite (Or Specific) and Which is Indefinite (Or Non-specific). Then Complete the Following Sentence Using Appropriate

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Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • ___ fruit seller does not earn much during the rainy season.
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उत्तर

  •  A fruit seller does not earn much during the rainy season.

         Indefinite (non-specific)

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अध्याय 1: Determiners - Exercise B [पृष्ठ ३]

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सीबीएसई English Workbook Class 10
अध्याय 1 Determiners
Exercise B | Q 2.3 | पृष्ठ ३

संबंधित प्रश्न

Articles

 1. The building that I visited today is a museum.
2. A building in which antiques are kept is called a museum.

         The word used before building in ....
         Sentence 1 is .......... and in
         Sentence 2 is ...............
• Can you think of a reason why different words are used before building in these two sentences? (Clue: Remember what you read in Class IX about 'specific and non-specific items.')

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • Bangkok is ___ capital of Thailand.

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • Australia, ................ country in the southern Hemisphere, has produced some world-class sportspersons.

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • ................... girl who lives at the corner of our street has been selected for the
    civil services.

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • The Amazon is considered to be ___ largest river in the world, in terms of volume of water.

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • .............. Punjab, ..........  important state of North India, has five rivers flowing through it.

Working in pair, decide which of the following items in italics is definite (or specific) and which is indefinite (or non-specific).
Then complete the following sentence using appropriate articles.

  • 1950 is ___ year in which India became a republic.

Read this extract from a story. Fill in the blanks using a, an or the where necessary.

I drove on the Time Machine without changing .............. lever . At last I stopped; ............... sun was red and very large and ........... huge reddish
rock was there. ................ Time Machine, in which I sat, was standing on ............. sloping beach and I saw ................. sea stretch to ................ horizon, but without any waves. No breath of wind stirred and I began to breathe very fast and felt ................ oppression in my head. I heard .............. harsh scream and saw .............. thing like ............. huge butterfly. But as I turned to look around again, I froze. .................. reddish mass of rock was moving towards me. I realized that it was ................ monstrous crablike creature. I felt a tickle on my cheek, as though .............. fly had lighted there. I struck at this and caught something threadlike. With horror I realized that I had just grasped ............. antenna of ............... monster crab. In a moment I had pulled the lever. I placed ................. time of one month between myself and these monsters.

                                                                                                   Ref.: The Time Machine
                                                                                                            By H.G.Wells


You and your friend have been asked to help the quiz-master to prepare questions for a geography quiz in your school. You may choose topics from the list below to prepare your questions:

continents           oceans and seas    countries                 deserts
mountains            lakes                      rivers and canals

Work in pairs. Each pair should write at least five questions (and their
answers), e.g.

What do you cross, when travelling from Europe to the USA? (The Atlantic Ocean)

You may use an atlas. Remember what you have learned in B.4 about using
or not using the.

..............................................................

.................................................................

When you have written your questions, your teacher wW organize a class
quiz.


Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns

Add a suitable noun to each of the following determiners in the box below.

a............                both.............         few.................      much..............
all...............            each............           little ............       neither................
an..............             either..............       many ...............    no.............
another...............    enough ..............   more ..............     any ..............
every...........            most...........          several...............  one..............
some.............           two(etc)..............    a lot of .............

Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns

Now get into groups of four, compare your answers, and decide which of
the determiners can be used with
.....................................   countable nouns only
 ....................................    uncountable nouns only
........................................... both countable and uncountable nouns

Fill in the table below as you do this activity

Countable (C) Uncountable (U) Both (C) and (U)
a pen some water some pens / some water

Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

________[ India/ lndia's] cultural diversity attracts tourists from all over the world. 


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

That house at the comer of the street belongs to _____ [ many / those ] people who are standing near its gate.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

_______ [ little / a little ] milk is required for a cup of tea.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

______[ few/ some ] of the mango trees in their garden bear fruit twice a Year .


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

The ______[ many / three ] monkeys that escaped from the Delhi zoo were found eating bananas in a fruit shop.


Choose the appropriate option from the box to complete the given sentence.

I spent _______[ the little / a little ] money I had.


From the following sentence, underline the Nouns and encircle their Determiners that specify the nouns in a noun phrase.

(articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives or quantifiers)

He lost his voice for good.


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