Question

Insert appropriate articles:
A. Where did you have ……….lunch?
B. We went to ……….. restaurant.

A. a ; a
B. a ; the
C. no article ; a
D. a ; no article

Answer 1

Hint: Articles are used to indicate whether a noun in a sentence is general or specific. Words like ‘a’; ‘an’ and ‘the’ are called articles.

Complete step by step answer:
We have to insert appropriate articles in the above sentences out of the choices given.
Option A) a; a – it is an incorrect answer. In the first sentence, we don’t use the article ‘a’ with lunch because lunch is an uncountable noun. We don’t use a or an with uncountable nouns. In the second statement, we went to a restaurant is the correct statement. But in totality this option is not correct as both the sentences hasto be correct.
Option B) a; the – it’s an incorrect answer. As stated above, we don’t use a or an with uncountable nouns hence the statement where did you have a lunch is incorrect. In the second statement, we went to the restaurant is correct as we can use ‘the’ in the second statement to specify a particular restaurant. But again both the sentences need to be correct in order to choose the correct option hence this is not a correct option.
Option C) no article; a – it is the correct answer. We don’t use ‘a’ or an with uncountable nouns hence in the first statement the sentence will be, where did you have lunch? So here no article will be used. In the second statement, we can use ‘a’ to talk about any restaurant in general. Therefore the sentence, we went to a restaurant is correct. Here we see that both the statements will be correct if we use ‘no article’ in the first one and the article ‘a’ in the second one. Hence this is the correct option.
Option D) a; no article – it’s an incorrect answer. We simply don’t use ‘a’ with uncountable nouns and here in the first statement the noun lunch is uncountable. In The second statement, we have to use ‘a’ or ‘the’ with the term restaurant in order to make it correct. Since no article is used here, the second statement becomes incorrect. Hence this an incorrect answer.
A. Where did you ……….have lunch? (No article used)
B. We went to a restaurant.

Thus, Option A is correct.

Note:
To solve questions related to articles you have to be familiar with all the rules of articles and there are certain rules of articles and they are: Use the correct article form for adjectives and noun, for non-specific noun use of ‘A’ and ‘AN’, Specific nouns always use ‘THE’, for consonant sounds use ‘A’ and for vowel sounds (a, e, I, o, u) use ‘AN’, use ‘THE’ for grouped place nouns (example: The Republic of France), for uncountable specific nouns like ‘I love the music you are playing’ use ‘THE’. There are some rules that should be followed to avoid misunderstanding of the usage of articles.