Exercise 17

Insert articles where necessary:

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answer any questions, you never show...slightest interest in anything I do. I haven’t...doubt but that you throw my letters into...waste-basket without reading them. Hereafter I shall write only about...work.

My re-examinations in...Latin and...Geometry came last week. I passed them both and I am now...sophomore.

I came up...fortnight ago, sorry to leave...farms, but glad to see...campus again. It is pleasant to come back to something familiar. I am beginning to feel at home in...college.

I am beginning...Chemistry,...most unusual study. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I am also taking...Logic, also History of … whole world. Also plays of William Shakespeare. Also French.

And here is ...news for you. I have begun to be author. ...poem entitled “From my Tower”, appears in...February “Monthly” — on...first page, which is ...very great honour for ...freshman. My English instructor said it was ...charming piece of ...work except for ...sixth line, which had too many feet.

But sometimes ...dreadful fear comes over me that I’m not ...genius.

Yours truly,

Judy.