Question

The woods are dark and lovely during winter.
Choose the options that are true in relation to the given sentence. This question has multiple correct options.
A) “The” is an attribute.
B) “The” is an article.
C) “Woods” is an attribute.
D) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Attribute means there are leadership qualities of a quality, character, or trait ascribed to someone or something. An entity closely identified with or belonging to a single person.

Complete answer:
In order to have an attribute, a subject needs to contain at least one noun. An attribute of the subject is any portion of expression that modifies the subject noun. An adjective, an article, a pronoun, a participle, an infinitive or a sentence may be the attribute of a noun.'
Option A- “The” is not an attribute here. As, attribute is considered when a subject has a noun. But, it is here used as an article and is placed before the proper noun. Moreover, it marks the beginning of the sentence.
Option B- “The” is an article. It is correct to say that it is used here as an article and used before proper nouns. However, it is not a subject but placed before a subject. Hence, it cannot be taken as an attribute.
Option C- “Woods” is an attribute. It is a correct answer because the attribute contains nouns. Here, woods is used as a noun in the above sentence. Therefore, this option is correct.
Option D- By looking at all the words stated above, we got the correct answer which is “woods”.
Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: The noun which is the most important term in a sentence is also qualified by an adjective or the equivalent of an adjective which is called its attribute or enlargement. A word, an article, a pronoun, a participle, an infinitive, or a phrase may be a noun's attribute. In short, attribute is that which has a subject and it contains one noun at least. It’s expression is a portion which can modify the subject noun.