Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words.
Are you afraid of ______ him?
Not ______ bit.

• A. the/a
• B. no article/a
• C. no article/no article
• D. the/no article
• E. an/a

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

no article/a

Option "B" is the correct answer.

EXPLANATION:

There are two types of articles:

DEFINITE ARTICLE (THE) : Article 'the' is used to refer to a DEFINITE thing or person.

INDEFINITE ARTICLE(A/AN): Article 'a/an' is used to refer to a thing or person in general. For instance: man, door etc.

Article 'a' is used with consonant sounds whereas article 'an' is used with vowel sounds.

In the first blank, "no article" will be used as 'him' is a possessive adjective and no article is used before possessive adjectives.

In the second blank, article "a" will be used because the speaker is making a general statement about something and bit(b) has a consonant sound.