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g. Ronaldo is the highest earning footballer.
h. Basanta Thapa is the Ronaldo of Nepal.
3.5. Complete the following sentences to make rules about the use of
‘the’.
a. Uncountable nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns and metal
nouns do not take .................................... in general use.
b. We use the article ............................ when we specify a metal noun
or an abstract noun.
c. We use ‘the’ before a ....................... when it is a distinguished one
and we compare someone / something with it.
3.6. Use ‘the’ where necessary.
a. .............. beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.
b. .............. beauty of Angelina Jolie is appreciated worldwide.
c. Paras Khadka is .............. Tendulkar of Nepal.
d. .............. brass is yellow in colour.
e. .............. flour we used in the soup was made in China.
f. .............. Sand you are using is from Kotre.
g. .............. powder is needed to play carom.
4 Vocabulary Time
4.1. Know the following idioms
a. be a pain in the arse : to be very annoying
Use : Getting up at five for office is a
pain in the arse.
b. be a weight off shoulders : to be happy that one doesn’t have
the load or responsibility
Use : If you could arrange the party for
me, that would be a huge weight
off my shoulders.
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