English Grammar Drills

Answer Key 297
Exercise 2.3
1. capacious worn brown overcoat 2. miniature antique gold locket 3. great overripe yellow
pear 4. sizeable early black and white photographs 5. long modern black desk 6. large aged
grey cat 7. petite young green peas 8. bulky old pink sweater 9. immense new off-white
mansion 10. slim up-to-date white drapes
Chapter 3
Exercise 3.1
1. test /ðǝ/ 2. road /ðǝ/ 3. action /ðiy/ 4. building /ðǝ/ 5. organization /ðiy/
6. umbrella /ðiy/ 7. desk /ðǝ/ 8. name /ðǝ/ 9. insurance /ðiy/ 10. eraser /ðiy/
Exercise 3.2
On my first trip to Manhattan, I bought a city map and tried to get a sense of its geography. I
quickly discovered what every person there knows: to find out where you are, you need to know
two things: whether you are facing “uptown” (north) or “downtown” (south), and whether you
are facing east or west.
To find out, you have to go to a street sign. The street sign will tell you both street and
avenue numbers. The numbers by themselves tell you nothing. They just define one point on a
grid. They tell you where you are on the grid, but you still do not know which way you are facing
on the grid. To know that, you have to go to the next street sign and compare the street and
avenue numbers there. If the new street number has gotten larger, you are going north. If the
new street number has gotten smaller, you are going south. If the new avenue number has gotten
larger, you are going west. If the avenue name has gotten smaller, you are going east. If the avenue
has a name rather than a number, then you have to take out the map again and compare the
numbers and/or names of the two avenues. Everybody has to memorize the names and numbers
of the avenues.
Exercise 3.3
1. the 2. some 3. The 4. The 5. a 6. a 7. An 8. The 9. a 10. a 11. a 12. the
13. the (an is also possible) 14. an 15. the 16. an 17. a 18. the 19. a 20. the
Exercise 3.4
1. the 2. a 3. the 4. the 5. The; the 6. a; some 7. The 8. An; a 9. a; the 10. The
11. the 12. a 13. the 14. the; the 15. the 16. an 17. the; a; the 18. the 19. A; the
20. the; the 21. some 22. a 23. a; the 24. the 25. the