Question

Use appropriate articles to complete the sentence-
I don’t usually have _____ lunch but I always eat _____ good breakfast.
a)A; a
b)The; the
c)No article; the
d)No article; a

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and decipher what it wants to convey. Point out the nouns in the sentence. Now, go through the given options and choose the one that fits the context correctly. You can also use the ‘hit and trial’ method to choose the correct answer.

Complete answer: 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” are articles, which combine with a noun to form a noun phrase.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ is A; a – it is not the correct answer because no article is used before the name of meals. So, the first blank has to be left empty.
Option ‘b’ is The; the – it is also an incorrect option because the first blank has to be left with no article.
Option ‘c’ is no article; the – it is not the correct option because ‘the’ is not used before any positive degree of comparison (good).
Option ‘d' is no article; a – it is the correct answer as the first blank is left empty and the second blank has ‘a’, which can be used before the positive degree of comparison.
Hence, option ‘d’ is the correct option.

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.