Question

_______ Statue of Liberty is at the entrance to ______ New York harbour.
(Fill in the blanks with the suitable article )
a)The; the
b)A; a
c)No article; no article
d)The; no article

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and understand what it means. Point out the nouns in the sentence. Now, go through the options and recall the use of each of them. You can also use the ‘hit and trial’ method to see which option fits the context while keeping the sentence grammatically sound.

Complete answer: In the given question, there are two blanks given. We have to fill them with the correct article from among the four given options. There are three articles – a, an and the. To solve this question, we must know the usage of the three articles.
Article ‘a’ and ‘an’
These articles are known as the ‘indefinite articles’ because they do not specify which noun you are talking about. For example, ‘a table’ could be any table, or you may want to eat ‘an apple’ without choosing a specific one.
Article ‘the’
This is ‘definite article’. When you use this article, it means that you are talking about something very specific.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct option :
Option ‘a’ is the; the. It cannot be the correct answer because the second blank wouldn’t have ‘the’ in it because it is a general place but since it is a proper noun, no article will be used before it.
Option ‘b’ is a; a. We cannot use ‘a’ before ‘Statue of Liberty' because it is a particular monument, and ‘the’ will be used there.
Option ‘c’ is No article; no article. It is also an incorrect option as we have to use ‘the' in the first blank.
Option ‘d’ is The; no article. It is the correct answer.
Hence, option ‘d’ is the correct answer. The complete sentence would be – The Statue of Liberty is at the entrance to New York harbour.

Note: For the purposes of understanding how articles are used, it is important to know that nouns can be either countable (can be counted) or uncountable (indefinite in quantity and cannot be counted). In addition, count nouns are either singular (one) or plural (more than one). Uncountable nouns are always in the singular form.