Once cat and rat lived in farm-house. One day rat saw apple on kitchen table. rat wanted to eat apple. cat saw rat near table. cat wanted to eat rat. cat ran after rat. rat ran into hole. cat was waiting near hole to catch rat.

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The Cat And The Rat

Once a cat and a rat lived in a farm-house. One day the rat saw an apple on the kitchen table. The rat wanted to eat the apple. The cat saw the rat near the table. The cat wanted to eat the rat. The cat ran after the rat. The rat ran into a hole. The cat was waiting near the hole to catch the rat. The farmer saw the cat sitting near the hole watching silently. He noticed the end of a rat’s tail deep in the hole. He fitted a wooden plug to the mouth of the hole to make the rat starve to death. But in the night when the farmer and the cat had gone to sleep, the rat gnawed the plug away and ran away. The following morning the farmer found that the rat had escaped by gnawing the plug away when he saw the bits of wood scattered in front of the hole. He got very angry and wanted to teach the rat a good bitter lesson. He bought a rat-trap and that night, he set the trap with a bait, placed it near the hole and went to bed. He was about to fall asleep when he heard a loud screaming in the kitchen. He jumped out of bed and ran to the kitchen expecting to see the rat caught in the trap. But he couldn’t believe when he saw what was happening in the kitchen. The cat was running here and there screaming madly with the trap, a paw caught in it and the rat was dancing in front of the hole clapping and laughing loudly, highly amused at the scene. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Unknown Known Countable Nouns Singular                       Plural A flower                      Flowers Water                      milk Uncountable nouns No plural Tea   Coffee   Bread    Sugar Money          Music               Love NOUNS A car                           cars                  singular+s                   A bus                           buses               singular+es                 A lorry                         lorries             singular-y+ies A thief                         thieves             singular-f+ves              A man                         men                 vowel (A,E,I,O,U)  change A sheep                       sheep               no change  An antenna                  antennae          foreign words    An antenna                  antennas          (Common usage)                                            Read this picture using the articles A, An, The. __ head __ hair __  face __  forehead __ eye brow __ eye brow __  eye brows __ eye __  eye __ eyes __  eye lid __  eye lid ___eye lid __  eye lid __ eye lids __ eye lashes __ nose __ nostril __ nostril __ nostrils __ mouth __ lip __ lip __ lips __ upper lip __ lower lip __ tooth __ teeth __ tongue __ chin __ cheek __ cheek __ cheeks __ temple __ temple __ temples __ ear __ ear __ ears __ ear lobe __ ear lobes __ jaw __ jaw We cannot use A or An with uncountable nouns but if they are defined, we can use The. Water has no taste. Water has no colour.   The water in the glass is very hot. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— ‘THE’ is also used where the noun can be identified from the context.We all have a personal universe in which everything is known and identified. If the listener shares or knows one’s universe , he will understand which is which. e.g., I am going to the post office. She has gone to the bank. Here the listener knows which post office and which bank. Other examples are:

 A Building            A Town                  A Country
the bathroom         at the cinema           in the country
the bed room         the theatre             on the beach
in the kitchen       in the town             at the seaside
in the living room   at the railway station  in the south
at the door          in the street           in the north
at the gate          up the road             in the hill country
the garden           at the post office      across the sea
in the corridor      in the hospital         all over the country
on the second floor  in the super market     in the dry zone