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omitted.Answers to Exercise 8:1. The children are happy. 2. The sheep have been sheared. 3. The men were beinggiven directions. 4. The deer are eating the hay. 5. The women have visited us. 6. Themice make a great deal of noise at night. 7. The gentlemen would li ke to havebreakfast early. 8. The lice are a nuisance. 9. Your feet are size ten. 10. The fishermenhave had a good season. 11. The teeth need to be filled. 12. The policewomen weredirecting traffic.CHAPTER 14. SINGULAR COUNTABLE NOUNS1. The use of determiners with singular countable nounsIn English, singular countable nouns usually cannot be used alone; they must bepreceded by a word such as a, the, each or every.e.g . .9. boxthe personeach childevery treeThe words a, the, each and every are examples of a group of words which can bereferred to as determiners. Such words, when used together with nouns, help todetermine to which particular entities the nouns are referring. Determiners other thana and the are dealt with in detail in a separate chapter.Singular countable nouns must usually be preceded by determiners even when thenouns are also preceded by various descriptive words.e.g . .9. heavy, awkward boxthe right personeach young childevery tall treeThe meanings of the words a and the are less specific than the meanings of the otherdeterminers. A and the are sometimes referred to as articles. They are the determinersmost frequently used with singular countable nouns.2. A and AnThe word a is often referred to as the indefinite article. The indefinite article has twoforms: a and an . The form a is used before words which begin with a consonant sound.e.g. a brooma garagea green appleAs well as being used before words beginning with consonants, a is also used beforewords which begin with vowels, but which are pronounced with an initial consonantsound. For instance, a is used before words begi nning with eu and words beginning with