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Exercise : Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4

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On the basis of the rules for using articles discussed in the OWL file "Count and Noncount Nouns," which combinations of words below are permitted and which ones aren't? Put an X next to the incorrect combinations.

1. a table

2. these person

3. this furniture

4. that assignment

5. a boy

6. the poetry

7. a difficulty

8. a research

9. this eggs

10. those argument

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