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1. The words a, an or the are called articles. The words ‘a’ and ‘an’ are

indefinite articles. They are used with singular nouns. The word ‘the’ is
called the definite article. Use ‘the’ before a noun when you are talking
to someone who already knows which person or thing you mean.
Silu gave me a book two days ago.

Arjun bought an orange.
They swam across the Koshi River last week.

B. Fill in the blanks with ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’.

1. Khagendra has got ________ headache.

2. Some girls are playing ___________ game in the ground.
3. Sylvia Plath wrote ___________ interesting story about __________

infant.

4. Kiran went to ___________ pub to meet his girlfriend.
5. Sandesh is __________ MBA. He is looking for _________ job.

6. Aakash has bought _________ guitar, as he wants to be
___________ singer in his future.

7. Two days ago _________ US lady phoned me. She sounded that she

was in ____________ hurry.
8. Some children are hovering around __________ one-eyed man.

9. Tihar, one of ___________ greatest festivals of Hindus, usually falls
in ___________ month of October.

10. Prabita is __________ industrious girl. She has won many awards.

C. Edit the following text where articles have been wrongly inserted.
Although I searched an internet for ages, I was unable to find the ad-
dress for him though there were hundreds of sites where I could buy a
poster. I wondered why he hadn’t tried to rescue an lighthouse keeper,

instead of just taking an photograph of him from an aircraft. A wind is
very strong, and it is surprising that man looks unafraid.

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