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: Articles are the words which describe the noun. It is used to decide whether a noun is a specific type or not. It is used before the noun. The category of noun includes part of speech. There are two types of articles. Articles constitute of a, an, and the. Articles are the words that explain whether a noun is specific or not.

Complete answer:
'A' is used in front of singular nouns and which are not specific. If words start with consonants then 'A' is used before nouns. For example- There is a book.
'An' is used in front of singular countable nouns. 'An' is used in front of nouns which are not specific. 'An' is used in front of words which start with vowels. Vowels are " a, i, e, o, u". For example- There is an umbrella.
'The' is used in front of nouns which are specific or unique. For them it doesn't Matter whether the noun is singular or plural. 'The' used before certain adjectives to give a plural meaning. For example- I am going to the India Gate.
Option(B), Option(C), Option(E) are incorrect because in the sentence ‘hour’ begins with a consonant but it has ‘h’ silent. Hence it has a vowel sound ‘our’ and requires the article ‘an’. Therefore these options are grammatically incorrect.
Option(E) is incorrect because the third space does not require any article.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: Articles are the words which describe the noun. It is used to decide whether a noun is a specific type or not. It is used before the noun. The category of noun includes part of speech. The first space requires ‘an’ article because of vowel sound and the second dash requires it to be filled with article ‘a’.