2019-02-12 Grammar: definite/indefinite articles

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 317 exercise 3 - Decide if each statement is generic or particular.
1 P
2 G
3 P
4 G
5 G
6 P
7 G
8 P
9 P (The nurses at that specific hospital where John is.)
10 G
11 P
12 G
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exercise 4 - With your partner, write one generic and one particular statement for your noun.
2 G: A new car can cost a lot of money.
  P: John got a new car last week.
5 G: Chamomile tea is the cheapest on the market. I really like tea.
  P: Yesterday I drank a lot of tea.
7 G: Books are heavy but helpful.
  P: I bought books in the bookstore last night.
9 G: Almost all Chinese food is oily.
  P: Yesterday I ate Chinese food in Chinatown.
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The customer pays or spends money for the product.
The customer buys the product for money.
The seller charges money.
The product costs money.
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In particular statements, the decision between definite (the) and indefinite (a/an/some) depends on who knows which one(s) the sentence is about.
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If the speaker and the listener know, use “the”.
If one or both of them don’t know, use “a”, “an”, or “some” (or nothing).
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p. 319 exercise 5 - Who knows which one?
1 listener doesn’t know, speaker may know
2 listener doesn’t know, speaker knows
3 listener doesn’t know, speaker knows
4 listener knows, speaker knows
5 listener doesn’t know, speaker doesn’t know
6 listener knows, speaker doesn’t know
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exercise 6 - Which sentence describes the situation?
1 b
2 b
3 (The listener doesn’t know, the speaker probably does.)
4 a
5 b
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Homework: p. 320 exercise 7 - Complete the sentences with “a”, “an”, “the”, “some”, or the zero article.
There may be more than one correct answer.