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Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles- (a, an, the, zero article) ✔️ Test 23 ➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🔰221. ...... Mt. Everst is the highest mountain in the world. 🔰222. ....... Bhagvad Geeta is a holy book of ....... Hindus. 🔰223. ......... Dawn is ...... American newspaper. 🔰224. Rohan is ....... cleverest student in our class. 🔰225. Whales are ...... largest animals in the sea. 🔰226. This is an apple. ..... apple is red. 🔰227. ...... Sun shines very brightly in summer. 🔰228. ...... girl who is wearing a red dress is my cousin. 🔰229. Kumar is ..... B.A. of the M.S. University. 🔰230. Kavita is ....... M.A. of the Saurashtra University. ➖➖➖➖➖➖ Answers 🔰221. (Zero article) Mt. Everst is the highest mountain in the world. 🔰222. The Bhagvad Geeta is a holy book of the Hindus. 🔰223. The Dawn is an American newspaper. 🔰224. Rohan is the cleverest student in our class. 🔰225. Whales are the largest animals in the sea. 🔰226. This is an apple. The apple is red. 🔰227. The Sun shines very brightly in summer. 🔰228. The girl who is wearing a red dress is my cousin. 🔰229. Kumar is a B.A. of the M.S. University. 🔰230. Kavita is an M.A. of the Saurashtra University. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 @eg2021

Hyphens --- 18 ============================== 👉🏻 Hyphens are the short lines that separate the words in the expressions ‘non-English’ and ‘ex-husband’. ☺️ When to use hyphens? We usually use a hyphen between the two words in a two-part adjective in which the second part ends in -ed or -ing. 🔹Good-looking 🔹Broken-hearted 🔹Blue-eyed 🔗Two-part adjectives which contain the sense of ‘between’ are also hyphenated. 🔹the India-Pakistan match (= the match between India and Pakistan) 🔹the Anglo-French agreement 🔗A longer phrase used as an adjective before a noun is also hyphenated. Compare: 🔹An out-of-work singer 🔹He is out of work. (NOT He is out-of-work.) 🟡 Prefixes The prefixes co-, non- and ex- are sometimes separated from the following words by hyphens. 🔹Ex-lover 🔹Non-cooperation 🔹Co-production 🔗Hyphens are also used to separate the parts of a long word at the end of a written or printed line. To see where to divide words look in a good dictionary. 😥 Are hyphens disappearing? The rules about the usage of hyphens are very complicated. Needless to say, people seem to be using hyphens less. Many short compound words are now written with no separation between the two parts. 🔹Examples are: weekend, takeover ,cooperation etc. 📎Many longer compound words are now written as completely separate words. 🔹Examples are: bus driver, living room etc. 📎It is also not unusual to find the same word written in three different ways. 🔹Examples are: living-room, living room, livingroom 😌 If you do not know whether to use a hyphen or not, the best thing to do is to write the words without a hyphen. ================== SV RAMANUJ