Question

Rewrite the following sentence by inserting the appropriate articles whenever necessary.
I read interesting story from Mahabharata.

Answer 1

Hint: An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. In English, both "the" and "a/an" are articles, which combine with a noun to form a noun phrase.

Complete answer:
Here, we need to rewrite the given statement: ‘ I read interesting story from Mahabharata’. The insertion of the article will be before the word ‘interesting’ and before Mahabharata. The article ‘an’ will be inserted before ‘interesting’ and ‘the’ will be inserted before ‘Mahabharata’. This is because ‘an’ is used when things are not specified in the sentence or in simple words there is no specific object, thus in the sentence, no specific story is identified but rather a generally interesting story is being talked about.

Also, the word ‘interesting’ starts with a vowel, because of which we used ‘an’. Unlike ‘an’, ‘the’ is used for the specific name of an object. In the sentence, a story from a particular book is specified, i.e., Mahabharata. Thus, the use of a definite book is why we used ‘the’ as an article and the use of an indefinite book and the word starting with a vowel is why we used ‘an’ as an article.

The sentence after insertion of articles will be: I read an interesting story from the Mahabharata.

Note: It is the important note:
- Use "a" or "an" if the title is not a specific title.
- Use "the" if a specific person has a title or if only one person has a title.
- Don't Use "a," "an," or "the" if the person's name is given.
- Use "the" if the name of the country is plural or indicates a group (of states, islands, etc.)