Determiners, English Practice Book, Class VI, DAV Board, The Best Solutions,

Worksheet 1

A. Houses, big or small, do not matter. What matters is how happy you are in them. Read the following poem on Raju’s experience in houses—big and small. Discuss with your partner which house you would have liked to live in.

Answer – Read carefully.

B. During his trip to Sujanpur last week, Mr Arya visited an amusement park with his family. This Sunday, he visited another park in Nehra, a suburb. He found a great difference between the two parks. Complete the comparison between the two parks that he makes by filling in the blanks with determiners.

Park in Sujanpur:

In my summer vacation, I visited a park in Sujanpur.
The park was small. There were swings and slides in it.
Syd enjoyed the swings immensely. He tried one of them.
What we liked best about the park was that it was very clean and peaceful.
Nikki wants to visit the park again.

Park in Nehra:

This Sunday I visited a park in Nehra. It was very big.
There were many swings and rides in it.
All rides were electric ones. And there were lots of food stalls.
Syd liked the park for various reasons.
Mrs Arya and Nikki, however, did not like the park because it was very crowded.

Worksheet 2

Form meaningful sentences (Examples):

1. I didn’t buy an apple.
2. He drank a cup of tea.
3. Kavita needs an ink pen.
4. We visited the Rocky Mountains.
5. He is a successful lawyer.
6. Manoj became an electrician.
7. She is the wife of a famous businessman.
8. Mr Ganapati is the most handsome man.
9. He has a pet cat.
10. My father writes with a hair dryer (this one is incorrect logically, but syntactically acceptable).

Worksheet 3

Complete the following sets of dialogues by inserting the articles ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’. The first one has been done for you.

(a): Did you buy anything?
(b): Yes, I bought a hat and a scarf. The hat cost me ten dollars, and the scarf twelve.

(a): There’s a fly on his wound.
(b): Let him drive the fly away.

(a): Mom, I have finished my letter to Sahil. Do you have a stamp and an envelope?
(b): Sure, here’s a stamp. There are some envelopes in the drawer of my table.

Worksheet 4

Rewrite with determiners

2. (a) That is Arunima’s box.
   (b) That box is Arunima’s.
3. (a) These are Rohan’s books.
   (b) These books are Rohan’s.
4. (a) These are Srishti’s charts.
   (b) These charts are Srishti’s.
5. (a) Those are Saloni’s sketch pens.
   (b) Those sketch pens are Saloni’s.
6. (a) This is Chhavi’s file.
   (b) This file is Chhavi’s.
7. (a) That is Madhav’s paint box.
   (b) That paint box is Madhav’s.

Worksheet 5

A. You have read the extract ‘The Collectors’ in the Unit ‘Hobbies’ of My English Reader (Class–VI). Look at the use of the articles in the following:

Read and understand

B. Add missing articles

1. What a beautiful card!
2. He finished the rice in the plate.
3. My neighbour has a pet dog.
4. All offices in the city were closed today.
5. The villagers are generally simple people.
6. She tore five pages of a
7. He answered all the questions in the examination.
8. She gave me an egg and some sweets.

DO IT YOURSELF

1. Karan had a memorable experience during his summer vacation last summer. On his return, he wrote his experiences to a friend but left the letter incomplete. Read the letter. Fill in the blanks with articles and complete the letter for Karan. The first one has been done for you.

Dear Praful,
I spent my summer vacation on an island. One day I went for a long walk. The sun was bright that day. I walked beyond the small cottages, till I reached the seashore. There I saw a sand castle. I wondered whether a child or an adult had made it. I peeped through an opening in the castle and saw an old coin lying there. I thought the coin belonged to the Mughal period. I put the coin in my purse. Soon a huge wave came and destroyed the castle.

Your friend,
Karan

2. Look at the following pictures. All the people in the pictures seem unhappy and dissatisfied. Select correct answers from the given Help Box to know the reason for their unhappiness.

Answers from the Help Box

(a) What’s wrong with this jacket? → It’s too big for me.
(b) Why can’t she get these books? → They are placed too high.
(c) Is he going to buy that television? → No, it’s too expensive.
(d) Why doesn’t he like this weather? → It’s too hot.

3. Complete the following poems by inserting articles

(a)
There was an old man from Cochin.
He had a leg made of tin.
When he went for a walk,
You just couldn’t talk
Because the leg made a terrible din.

(b)
There were three young men from Dehradun.
They flew round the world in a balloon.
The balloon started to fall over
The great China Wall.
The unlucky three men who grew very frightened,
Tied themselves with a rope.
This they did with a hope
That live or depart they would not part.
So thought the three men from Dehradun.

4. Nikki wrote the following letter to her uncle thanking him for the birthday gift he had sent her. But there are a few errors in it. Underline the error in each line and write the correct word in the space provided. The first one has been done for you.

5. Here is an interesting game for you to play. The grid below has a special message for you. To decode the message, follow the clues given below.

(a) Cross all the planets.

(b) Cross all the demonstratives.

(c) Cross all the words that rhyme with blow.

(d) Cross all the articles.

(e) Cross all the green things.

(f)  Cross all the other determiners.

(g) Cross all the words with 12 or more letters.

(h) Cross the names of all the animals.

You have traced the message. Now write it below. (The message has two sentences in it.)

Message:

You are clever, smart and intelligent keep it up.

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners. The first one has been done for you.

(a) May I have some more milk?
(b) February has fewer days than March.
(c) She has more friends than I.
(d) At the end of the road, you will find a newly inaugurated bookstore.
(e) Can you tell me the shortest route to the airport?
(f) She is an astronaut.
(g) Kashmir has the finest scenery in the world.
(h) I am feeling better after taking this medicine.
(i) The box weighs not more than one kilogram.
(j) March has fewer days than April.