Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
It took us ______ hour and ______ half to do shopping and we got ______ home at 4
A.an / a / no article
B.the / an / the
C.on / the / the
D.an / the / a
E.a / the / the

Answer 1

Hint: There are two types of articles: DEFINITE ARTICLE (THE) : Article 'the' is used to refer to a DEFINITE thing or person.INDEFINITE ARTICLE(A/AN): Article 'a/an' is used to refer to a thing or person in general. For instance: man, door etc. Just the basic Concept is required to identify options.

Complete answer:
Option A is correct: Article 'a' is used with consonant sounds whereas article 'an' is used with vowel sounds. In the first blank, article "an" will be used because article "a" is used when the speaker is making a general statement.

Similarly, In the second blank, article "a" will be used because article "an" is used when the speaker is making a general statement and the noun is having a consonant sound.

In the third blank, "no article" or "zero article" because 'no article' is used to refer to general ideas or general estimations.

Option B is incorrect :The an the these options does not fit the correct article that sounds better for the given sentence

Option C is incorrect : on /the/ the is the option that is given and here all articles do not match the correct sentence and so this option will be the wrong answer.

Option D and E are incorrect : Here both options given are wrong articles and we cannot use this as the correct option as they are incorrect.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note::The point here to be noted is about the definite article and indefinite article and here it is noted that which article best suits for the given sentence and we do not choose the wrong option Hence the option is A correct.And make sure that the option given in the question matches exactly and correct.So we need to read the sentence carefully and answer it using exact option.