9. Is this coffee ________________ for you? Would you like some more sugar?
10. Do you think he has studied _____________________ to pass the entrance exam?
II. We generally use articles (a, an and the) before common nouns. But insome cases articles are not used before them. Read the following sentencesfrom the play 'The Dear Departed' and notice the underlined commonnouns.
1. He went out soon after breakfast to pay his insurance.
2. And when we'd finished dinner I thought I'd take up a bit of something on a tray.
In the above sentences the underlined common nouns 'breakfast and dinner' referto the names of meals and food. In primary and general sense we don't use articles beforethe words that refer to the names of meals and food ie. breakfast, dinner, lunch, supper,pizza, fish fry and omelette. Thefollowing are the cases where 'the' is not used in the primary sense. (Ina special or particular sense, 'the' is used before them.)
a) Before proper nouns (Rama, Sita, Mohan, Ramya, India, Ongole, Gandhi Nagar etc.) b) Before abstract nouns and material nouns (honesty, beauty, poetry, iron, gold etc.) c) Before the words 'man, woman, society, heaven and hell' .d) Before the names of diseases, games and sports, seasons, days, months. (fever, cricket,summer, April etc.) e) Before the words ‘church, jail, prison, school, college, market, hospital, office,university, temple, mosque, bank, home and nursing home. ’f) Before plural nouns (books, people, villages, pens etc.) g) Before the words referring to relations. (mother, father, brother, sister, aunt etc.) h) Before the names of languages. (Telugu, English, Hindi, Tamil, French etc.) i) In certain expressions or phrases ( catch fire, send word, set sail, set foot, at home, inhand, in debt, by car, at night, on demand, on earth, on foot, etc.)