Read the excerpt below from L. Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland and answer the questions that follow.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on ____ bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into ____ book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is ____ use of ____ book,’ thought Alice ‘without ____ pictures or ____ conversations?’
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for ____ hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether ____ pleasure of making ____ daisy-chain would be worth ____ trouble of getting up and picking ____ daisies, when suddenly ____ White Rabbit with ____ pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of ____ way to hear ____ Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at ____ time it all seemed quite natural); but when ____ Rabbit actually took ____ watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen ____ rabbit with either ____ waistcoat-pocket, or ____ watch to take out of it, and burning with ____ curiosity, she ran across ____ field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down ____ large rabbit-hole under ____ hedge.
(a) Complete the blanks in the following excerpt with a(n), the or ø.
(b) What can you say about this and that (in bold in the text)? Are they determiners or pronouns? What can you say about how they participate in nominal reference?
(c) What is the function of the PrepPs with ____ pink eyes, with either ____ waistcoat-pocket, or ____ watch to take out of it and under ____ hedge (underlined in the text)?
