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5.1. Read the following sentences.

a. I am looking at a boy. The boy is singing.

b. The book you are reading is very humorous.

c. The doctors who work in Manipal Hospital

are young.

d. Will you tell me the name of girl who made
a noise in the class?

e. Are we supposed to pluck the flowers from

the garden?

5.2. Learn more uses of ‘the’.

* We use ‘the’ before superlative adjectives.

Eg. the highest, the most artistic, the loudest, the

most dangerous etc.
* We use ‘the’ before the names of rivers, seas, oceans,
famous sites, religious books, newspapers and

magazines.

Eg. the Nile, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the

Disneyland, the Geeta, the Wisdom, the Republica
Daily etc.
* We use ‘the’ before a noun which is unique or only one of it.

Eg. the sun, the world, the universe, the king, the
principal, the chairperson, the space, the president

5.3. Use a, an or the in the following blanks.

a. Which is ......................... biggest island in the world?

b. ............... man whom we met yesterday is an interior

designer.

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