Answer — Exercise 6
16 - A brief history·Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Look at the sentences from the article. Explain why each article in bold is used.
Answer
- there is only one ninth largest country
- one of several examples – there are other exporters
- one of several and not important which it is – there are other borders
- the Arabs (there are no others); the eighth century (there was only one)
- there was only one Soviet Union
- if it is ‘the only thing’ then there is only one