"To be or not to be, that is the question" - William Shakespeare
"The or not the, that is my question" - Leon Wooldridge.
( He's a definite article, isn't he? )
1
Discuss these questions:
- Which metals have been used as currency?
- Is gold a better currency than diamonds?
- What qualities must a material or commodity
have if it is to be used successfully as currency?
- Do diamonds have a value directly proportional to their weight?
Tobacco in Virginia. Funny Money. Definite article practice
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Put in the article "the" "a" or "an" if necessary.
Some gaps do not need an article at all!
In 1642
(1)the
___ General Assembly of Virginia solemnly passed
(2) a ___ law declaring tobacco
(3) the ___ only valid currency in
(4) the ___ colony.
(5) ___ tobacco then remained
(6) the ___ basis of Virginian currency for over
(7) a ___ century.
This was not such
(8) a ___
strange aberration as it might seem.
(9) ___
History shows that virtually anything scarce,
durable and desirable can become
(10) ___ money.
In more recent times,
(11) the ___
most varied objects have functioned as money,
from
(12) ___ dogs' teeth
in New Guinea to drums on
(13) the
___ island of Alor in Indonesia.
In
(14) ___
Thailand, most parts of a tiger could be used as
(15) ___ cash,
including
(16) the ___ claws and
(17) the ___ tongue.
In
(18) the ___ course of time,
as in
(19) ___ China,
(20) the ___
real thing was replaced by
(21) a ___
replica. Pieces of silver in
(22) the ___
shape of
(23) a ___
tiger's tongue
were still changing hands in Thailand only
(24) a ___
few years ago. But
(25) the ___
greatest success story among strange currencies was undoubtedly
the cowries shell.
For many centuries it was accepted in payment through much of
(26) ___
Africa and Asia. In the French Sudan,
cowries remained an acceptable currency for paying taxes until 1907,
when they at last succumbed to
(27) the
___ relentless advance of paper money and coins.
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