Grammar Multiple Choice Activities

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Title: Using a, an and the 2   Content: articles   Level: Intermediate

UGRU Book: level2   UGRU Module: module3

Directions: The sentences below come from a biography of Thomas Edison. Choose whether a, an or the should complete the sentences.

	He was by any reckoning _____ brilliant inventor, but there were many other fine, clever contemporary inventors, now mostly forgotten.
	a
	an
	the

	His vision encompassed what ____ twentieth century would call innovation—invention, research, development, and commercialization.
	a
	an
	the

	We can see ____ foundation for his success in his youth and early career.
	a
	an
	the

	Known as Al in his youth, his first work was helping in ____ family garden.
	a
	an
	the

	When he was 15 he rescued the toddler son of telegraph operator James MacKenzie from the path of ____ rolling freight car, and MacKenzie rewarded him by giving him lessons in how to use the telegraph.
	a
	an
	the

	He purchased _____ small lathe and some other tools.
	a
	an
	the

	A message from _____ operator friend induced Edison to travel to Boston in early 1868, where he took a job with Western Union.
	a
	an
	the

	With money from the facsimile contract, Edison and mechanic William Unger opened ____ small telegraph manufacturing shop in Newark, New Jersey.
	a
	an
	the

	During the first half of the 1870s, Edison established himself as ___ foremost telegraph inventor in America.
	a
	an
	the

	The first floor was ____ equally superb machine shop.
	a
	an
	the