Question
(5.) Insert articles into the spaces below. I visited __ sweet shop to buy __ bar of chocolate and __ aniseed sweet; I got 20p change from __ one pound coin I paid with. 6. Match the determiners to the correct sentences. Use each word once. many one __ person had a ticket. The room was full; __ people had come to watch the play. I only have __ sweet left.
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5. I visited the sweet shop to buy a bar of chocolate and an aniseed sweet; I got 20p change from the one pound coin I paid with.6. 'Each' person had a ticket.'The room was full; many people had come to watch the play.I only have 'one' sweet left.
Explanation
The first question tests your ability to correctly place definite and indefinite articles in English grammar. The rules are generally that "a" or "an" is used when the speaker believes the listener/reader does not specifically know what he/she is referring to. "The" is used when the speaker believes the listener/reader does know what he/she is referring to. Additionally, 'a' is used before words that begin with a consonant sound, and 'an' is used before words that start with a vowel sound.For the sentence mentioned in Question 5, the sweet shop and the chocolate bar are generally known or specifically meant, however, the speaker mentions the aniseed sweet for the first time, hence 'an' is used whereas, 'a' bar of chocolate is alright as it does not begin with a vowel sound while 'an' aniseed sweet is grammatically correct too. On the contrary,'The' one pound coin is used as objectively only one pound was paid and 'the' denotes the specific pound coin.The second question requires knowledge of how to correctly utilize the determiners 'each', 'many', and 'one' in sentences. 'Each' is used when referring to every individual of a group one at a time. 'Many' is used in the context where the group is large in number, it illustrates more than the average number while 'one' is used to illustrate or emphasize just a single thing or person. Following the roles of the determiners 'each', 'many', and 'one', you can see that: if the determiner refers to only a single thing or person it fits best with 'one sweet left', if the determiner refers to a large number of people it fits with 'many people had come to watch the play', if we are referring to every individual having a ticket, it's best to use 'each person had a ticket'.