Question 9: My friends live in …. old house in …… small village. There is ……… beautiful garden behind …….. house. I would like to have ……… garden like that.
Think and answer the question before looking at the answer
+ Since “old” starts with an “o” vowel, we use “an” and “house” that have not been mentioned before, but in the second sentence, “house” is mentioned in the previous sentence, so we use the preposition “the”.
+ Similarly, “village” in the first sentence and “garden” in the second sentence are not mentioned and since “small” and “beautiful” start with consonants, we use “a”.
+ In the third sentence, “garden” is mentioned a second time, but it means “one” so we still use “a”. (I want a garden like that.)
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