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2. “I said you looked like egg, sir,” Alice gently explained.
3. honest person is always respected.

4. Deepti baked chocolate cake yesterday.
5. The rabbit jumped into the garden through hole in the wall.

Definite Article

 We use the before the name of a particular thing or person.

 We also use the when we refer to a thing or person who has been mentioned earlier.
1. Suresh built a house.

2. The house has a garden.

3. The garden is small.

In sentence 1, we write a house. In sentence 2, we

write the house because we have already mentioned
the house in the previous sentence. In sentence
2, we write a garden, but in sentence 3, we write
the garden as we have already mentioned it in the

previous sentence.

 We also use the before nouns that are unique.
Examples: the sky, the Earth, the sun, etc.

We can use the for both singular and plural nouns.

B. Fill in the blanks with a, an or the and complete the passage.

When Alice saw egg, she went close to it and noticed that it

was Humpty Dumpty. He was sitting on high wall with his

legs crossed. wall was narrow. She also noticed that Humpty
Dumpty had eyes, nose and mouth. She stood there with her

hands stretched to catch him, for she was expecting him to fall.

Prepositions

You already know that words like in, into, on, at, to, of, under, over, between, near,
behind, etc., are called position words or prepositions.

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