3.1.7 Определители

Кроме артиклей для описания существительных могут использоваться определители, которые указывают, является ли существительное общим или определенным. Определители также отвечают на вопросы: который, сколько, чьи, и представляют другую информацию.

К определителям относят:

Possessive (притяжательные)	my, his, her, its, our, your, their, Newton’s: My PC is older than your Mac.
Demonstrative (демонстрационные)	this, these, that, those: Those students rent that house.
Relative (родственные)	what, which, whose, whatever, and others: We do not know which decision to make.
Indefinites (неопределенные)	any, each, few, many, other, some, and others: Few films today have complex plots.
Interrogative (вопросительные)	what, which, whose: What answer did you give?
Cardinal (counting) numerals (количественные числительные)	one, two, and others: We’ll have one more test to call it a day.

Упражнение 65. Выберите нужный артикль или оставьте существительное без артикля

Пример: Be forewarned: (a, an, the) the camera as we know it may soon be obsolete.

1. At (a, an, the) ______ dawn of (a, an, the) ______ twenty-first century comes (a, an, the) ______ invention so advanced that it may completely rid (a, an, the) ______ United States of America of every camera that had come before it. 2. (A, An, the) ______ digital camera, which allows photos to appear on (a, an, the) ______ computer monitor, takes up virtual space, not physical space. 3. As (a, an, the) ______ result, if you see (a, an, the) ______ bad photo on (a, an, the) ______ screen, you can simply erase (a, an, the) ______ poor photo to make room for (a, an, the) ______ new one. 4. With this new technology, (a, an, the) ______ aunt can even e-mail photos to her niece or nephew, or she can put them on (a, an, the) ______ Web page. 5. Digital cameras also allow people to alter (a, an, the) ______ appearance of people or things, which, according to many critics, is (a, an, the) ______ chief disadvantage of (a, an, the) ______ digital camera.

Упражнение 66. Выберите нужный артикль или оставьте существительное без артикля

Пример: For (a, an, the) ______ years, people have worked under (a, an, the) the assumption that (a, an, the) the best remedy for (a, an, the) a burn is butter.

1. This kind of treatment seems to be ______ good idea because butter looks and feels like ointment, but butter doesn’t contain ______ antibacterial property like ointment does. 2. In using butter to treat ______ burns, you are coating ______ skin with butter that must be removed later to keep it from interfering with ______ healing process. 3. In actuality, cold water without ice will not only ease ______ pain but also prevent scarring and further damage. 4. In fact, ______ person who keeps the finger submerge for at least several minutes and as long as half an hour will have ______ least painful or scarred burn, according to doctors. 5. However, if ______ burn is serious, ______ first person to be consulted should be a doctor.