a. Read the paragraph below and fill in the blanks using ‘a, an’, or ‘the’. It is said that computer is electronic extension of the human brain. Therefore, in principle, computer can do all those activities which human brain can do.
Today computers are found to be most useful devices as knowledge providers. Another important field of application of computers is development of robots. internet has brought drastic change in communication systems. b.
In the following paragraph, insert ‘a, an’, or ‘the’ wherever necessary and rewrite the sentences. In our family, we have planned to take children to zoo next Sunday. Van has been arranged and we are sure to have comfortable journey. Zoo is interesting place for children who enjoy watching animals and want to know more about them.
Even youngsters love to visit zoo. c. Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners. (Articles have been included) Once the emperor gave a bag of seeds to his council of ministers and said that he would give them six months’ time to grow the seeds.
Whoever does a good job will be made the emperor of that empire. the ministers took their task seriously. After six months ministers had small plants in their pots. A had very large plants.
had medium sized plants. The emperor entered the hall. He was amused to see plants. He called the minister and asked him what he did with the seed.
minister explained the process he adopted to make plant grow. The emperor called the other ministers to explain what they did. Only minister had come with an empty pot. They laughed loudly at the foolishness of this minister.
But the Emperor applauded him and made him the Emperor. Do you know why? He had given them boiled seeds which will not grow. Only minister was honest.
d. Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners. i. They came early but there was (little/ a little) work to do.
ii. Anand invited (few/ a few) friends for the birthday party. iii. The teacher gave (all / every) student a separate topic for the assignment.
iv. (Most of/Many) the water overflowed from the tank. v. (One/Any) of my friends wished me on my birthday.
vi. Vijay had (no/ any) idea about the problem. vii. Adhi had taken (much /many) photos during the programme.
viii. (Some/Few) girls who attended the class informed the others about the test. -A-Prose-The Portrait of a - - :