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Oxford Street
Portobello Road
Hyde Park
Leicester Square
Victoria Station

Other nouns which take no article are:

lakes Lake Superior, Lake Victoria countries Spain, Norway, China continents Asia, Europe

The following types of noun take no article when referred to generally:

games squash, football, chess academic subjects medicine, literature, physics abstract nouns freedom, understanding meals dinner, tea, breakfast

Compare these sentences:

Do you prefer hockey or football?
The football they play in America is different from the kind they play in
England.
Dinner is usually at eight o’clock.
The dinner they served yesterday was the best I remember.

Practice

1. Fill each gap (if necessary) with a suitable article.

1. - What’s her job?

- She’s ___ teacher.
2. Britain is ___ island.
3. Excuse me, can I ask ___ question?
4. What do you usually have for ___ lunch?
5. Is there ___ life on Mars?
6. Can you tell me ___ time, please?
7. ___ air is so fresh today.
8. She has ___ long brown hair.
9. Is she ___ English?
10. Where’s ___ bag? It’s gone!
11. Would you like ___ coffee?
12. She works six days ___ week.

2. In this exercise you have to put in a / an or the.

Example: There was __a__ man and __a__ woman in the room. _The_ man was

English but _the_ woman looked foreign. She was wearing __a__ fur coat.

1. This morning I bought _____ newspaper and _____ magazine. _____ newspaper is in my bag but I don’t know where _____ magazine is.

2. My parents have _____ cat and _____ dog. _____ dog never bites _____ cat but _____ cat often scratches _____ dog.

3. I saw _____ accident this morning. _____ car crashed into _____ wall.
_____ driver of _____ car was not hurt but _____ car was quite badly damaged.

4. When you turn into Lipson Road, you will see three houses: _____ red one, _____ blue one and _____ white one. I live in _____ white one.

5. We live in _____ old house in _____ middle of the village. There is
_____ beautiful garden behind _____ house. _____ roof of _____ house is in very bad condition.

3. Read these sentences carefully. Some are correct, but some need the
(perhaps more than once). Correct the sentences where necessary.

Examples: Everest was first climbed in 1953. Right

Milan is in north of Italy. Wrong – the north of Italy
1. Last year we visited Canada and United States.
2. Africa is much lager than Europe.
3. South of England is warmer than north.
4. We went to Spain for our holidays and swam in Mediterranean.
5. Tom has visited most countries in western Europe.
6. A friend of mine used to work as a reporter in Middle East.
7. Next year we are going skiing in Swiss Alps.
8. Malta has been a republic since 1974.
9. Nile is longest river in Africa.
10. United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Unit 2 Prepositions

Prepositions of place and directions

Main points

o You normally use prepositional phrases to say where a person or thing is, or the direction they are moving in. o You can also use adverbs and adverb phrases for place and direction. o Many words are both prepositions and adverbs.

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