Question

This morning, I bought ___________ newspaper and ___________ magazine. ____________ newspaper is in my bag but I don’t know where I put _____________ magazine.
A) A, an, the, the
B) A, an, an, the
C) A, a, a, a
D) A, a, the, the

Answer 1

Hint:Here we will use the appropriate article. Articles are basically a, an and the. Articles are the words that define a noun as specific and unspecific. Articles help in clarifying the meaning of the noun in the sentence.

Complete answer:
There are two articles ‘a/an and the’. The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns. A and an are used to modify non-specific and non- non-particular nouns.
A/ an – indefinite article and ‘a’ is used before the consonants and ‘an’ is used before the vowel sounds (a, e, I, o, u).
The – definite article
Option A) A, an, the, the – is an incorrect answer because in second blank an is ‘an’ incorrect choice as we cannot use ‘an’ before consonant. So, we will not consider this option.
Option B) A, an, an, the - is an incorrect answer because in second blank an is ‘an’ incorrect choice as we cannot use ‘an’ before consonant and same as in third blank we cannot use ‘an’ before consonant (newspaper). So, we will not consider this option.
Option C) A, a, a, a –this is an incorrect answer because in third and fourth blank instead of ‘a’ we should use ‘the’. So, this is an incorrect option.
Option D) A, a, the, the – is the correct answer because this option fits best in the blanks. So, we will use this option in order to make it grammatically correct.
This morning, I bought a newspaper and a magazine. The newspaper is in my bag but I don’t know where I put the magazine. (Option D)

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:The nouns 'newspaper' and 'magazine' are given in the first half of the sentence, they both are non-specific as well as singular, so we use the indefinite article 'a' for both for both the blanks. 'The' is used in the second half of the sentence because the nouns have already been mentioned before. So, option D is the most appropriate answer as compared to any other option.