Here are the corrections: - CCE has offered us the best opportunities to improve our skills. - If you learn English, you can travel all across India. - Our department has a new superintendent. He is a Ph D. - A Commissioner reads the Ramayana daily and plays cricket on Sundays. - If I am retrenched, I need to get a new job. - My section has a lot of pending files. - When I feel exhausted while at work, I take a break and do yoga. - Can I have one piece of that white sheet? - I am a university student. - I am an honest officer working at the Secretariat.

1. ARTICLES
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2. Nouns
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3. Count or Noncount?
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Ms Saraswati drinks two glasses of milk and eats
a loaf of bread with butter every morning. She
packs a bottle of juice and some bananas for her
children who go to school, not far from her
office. She prefers nutritious food and carefully
avoids junk.
Ms Saraswati drinks two glasses of milk and eats
a loaf of bread with butter every morning. She
packs a bottle of juice and some bananas for her
children who go to school, not far from her
office. She prefers nutritious food and carefully
avoids junk.

4. Indefinite Article
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5. Indefinite Article
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I am _____ student. My father is _____ engineer
and my mother is _____ home maker. My sister is
working in _____ software company and my
brother owns _____ ice-cream factory. We live in
_____ small house about _____ hour from here. My
sister married _____ European designer and they
have recently bought _____ apartment in
Hyderabad. They have _____ son and _____
daughter. We are _____ happy family.
I am a student. My father is an engineer
and my mother is a home maker. My sister is
working in a software company and my
brother owns an ice-cream factory. We live in
a small house about an hour from here. My
sister married a European designer and they
have recently bought an apartment in
Hyderabad. They have a son and a
daughter. We are a happy family.

6. Definite Article
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7. Use correct articles
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Our office is located in a old building near
Nampally Railway Station. We are not sure
how old a building is. We have the
stairway and the elevator inside an
building. There is the canteen where we
can have the tea and the biscuits. Not far
from our office are an hotel and the
masjid.
Our office is located in an old building near
Nampally Railway Station. We are not sure
how old the building is. We have a stairway
and an elevator inside the building. There
is a canteen where we can have the tea and
the biscuits. Not far from our office are a
hotel and a masjid.

8. Articles
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Indefinite
(anyone)
Definite
(a certain one)
Countable Singular
A bird / an eagle
Plural
(Some) birds
Singular
The eagle
Plural
The eagles
Uncountable (Some) Food The eagles

9. Use correct articles
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……… new government degree college will soon be started in ………
Ghanpur during ……… current financial year. It will be temporarily
located in ……… private building and within five years will be
translocated to ……… permanent campus. ……… expert committee
has recommended ……… waiver of ……… corpus fund. Budget
estimates have already been sent to ………finance department.
……A… new government degree college will soon be started in ………
Ghanpur during the current financial year. It will be temporarily
located in ..a… private building and within five years will be
translocated to ..a… permanent campus. An expert committee has
recommended the waiver of the corpus fund. Budget estimates have
already been sent to the finance department.

10. Repeat Occurrences
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_____ man walks into _____ restaurant and asks
for _____ glass of water. _____ manager pulls out
_____ revolver and points at _____ man. Upon
seeing _____ revolver, _____ man says, “Thank
you” and walks out of _____ the restaurant. _____
woman waiting outside _____ restaurant asks
_____ man, “What happened?” _____ man says, “I
got rid of my hiccups on seeing _____ revolver.”

11. Listener knows
(You know which one)
Listener doesn’t know
(You don’t know which
one)
Speaker knows
(I know which one)
Definite
The new book has cost
us Rs 250/-
Indefinite
I have bought a new
book for you.
Speaker doesn’t know
(I don’t know which one)
Indefinite
Have you bought a new
book.
Indefinite
Let’s buy a new book.
Articles
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12. Articles, if necessary
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_____ American, _____ Chinese and _____ Indian were
going around _____ Hyderabad. _____ American pointed to
_____ Birla Mandir and said, “We build very fast. It takes us
less than _____ year to build such _____ temple.” _____
Chinese pointed at _____ airport and bragged, “In _____
Japan, we build super-fast. We build such _____ airport in
less than _____ month.” Next, they were passing by _____
Cyber Tower. _____ American and _____ Chinese asked
_____ Indian what that building was. _____ clever Indian
looked at _____ building surprised and said, “I don’t know.
It wasn’t there _____ week ago.”

13. Rewrite
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 CCE has offered us best opportunities to improve our the skills.
 If you learn the English, you can travel all across the India.
 Our department has new superintendent. He is Ph D.
 A Commissioner reads Ramayana daily and plays the cricket on Sundays.
 If I am retrenched, I need to get new job.
 My section has lot of pending files.
 When I feel exhausted while at work, I take break and do the yoga.
 Can I have one piece of that white sheet?
 I am an university student.
 I am a honest officer working at Secretariat.
 There is the institution for a blind near our home.
 My trip abroad was the exciting experience.