Question

Fill in the blank with most suitable words-
He was _______ very tall man with ______ dark hair.
a) A/the
b) A/no article
c) The/the
d) No article/no article
e) A/a

Answer 1

Hint:Read the given phrase/sentence carefully. Try to make out the meaning of it and find the subject or the predicate or the main object of the sentence.

Complete answer:
An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiably of the referents of the noun phrases. In English, both “the” and “a” are articles, which combine with a noun to form a noun phrase.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct option-
Option ‘a’ is A/the. It cannot be the correct answer as we cannot use ‘the’ before dark hair. It would be incorrect. So, we will eliminate this option straight away.
Option ‘b’ is A/no article. The first blank will have ‘a’ as It is used with consonant sounds. The next blank has to be left with no article filled in it, as we cannot use any in the given sentence.
Option ‘c’ is The/the. It cannot be the correct option as ‘the’ cannot be used in any of the blanks. So, we will eliminate this option straight away.
Option ‘d’ is No article/ no article. We have to fill in the first blank, there has to be an article in the first blank.
Option ‘e’ is A/a. We cannot use ‘a’ as in the second blank. So this is an incorrect option, we will eliminate this option. Hence, option ‘b’ is the correct option.

Note:
All the other options are plausible distractions. Pay attention to the basic rules of articles, such as, ‘a’ can be used only with consonants, and ‘an’ has to be used before vowels.