Question

Fill in the blank with the correct or no article:
The Secretary and _____ Treasurer are absent.

(Mr. Ray is the secretary and his wife is the treasurer)

• A. a
• B. an
• C. the
• D. No Article

Answer 1

The correct option is C the

When two or more nouns or adjectives refer to different persons or things, an article is used before each noun or adjective. Since we know that Mr Ray is the secretary and his wife is the treasurer, the definite article 'the' must be used before 'Treasurer'. Hence option C is the correct answer.

Options A and B are incorrect because both 'a' and 'an' are indefinite articles that are used before non-specific singular nouns or when we don't know what/who exactly we are referring to. Sice the specifics are already given in the context, these options are incorrect.

Option D is incorrect because as stated before an article is needed before the noun as we are referring to two different people in two different positions.